The Trump I Know (2020) - full transcript
We form our perceptions of the world based from sound bites on small screens - Including our opinions of the President. This narrow viewpoint opens up for one film producer when he ...
people are fascinating
i love hearing real people's stories
hearing what motivates them
what inspires them
in this day and age we have access to
more information about people
than ever before we peer into these
little windows
and think we know people clinically
narcissistic
even people we've never actually met you
can tell this is not a person that
understands any issue deeply
we feel so connected
so informed technology has definitely
opened new parts of the human experience
but what's been closed off as a result
we see in part
we hear in part i know words i have the
best words
opinions are quickly formed not that
there was any question but but this is
pretty clear then confirmed by random
humans we've also never met
sergeant is a bigot a racist and racist
person
we think we know people uh is it balance
problems is there some weakness there
but do we really the american people by
a fluke
elected in imbecilic con man the lack of
humility from donald trump he might
order a nuclear weapons strike
this might seem like such a basic
question
but how do we really know someone
come on here i didn't even know that
there was a human being named eric trump
truth be told don't tell my husband that
while promoting my last film i met laura
trump
as she shared her story i was amazed as
an american
i've heard more about the british royals
than our current first family
crazy and is it okay to say i'm
surprised she was so
normal well as normal as you can be
while
walking the dogs and feeding the kids in
between filming segments for the news
networks
okay here we go guys good evening
everybody and
welcome to the right view i'm laura
trump senior advisor to
president trump's reelection campaign
laura has since become my friend
she's the trump i know
is everybody ready to eat are you hungry
luke
yeah would you like to eat lunch yeah
okay who am i
i never in a million years would have
imagined that i would be
in this role or be part of anything like
this
what happened ladies and gentlemen oh
thank you
broccoli so it was very polite
say thank you you're very welcome luke
i was born and raised in wilmington
north carolina
same house i came home from the hospital
to my parents
still live in today i went to high
school there i went to college at nc
state
in raleigh and then i expected like i
got out of college and oh there would be
a job waiting for me
and that did not end up being the case
um
so i it's so long
it's dirty i know it's okay um so i
ended up
waiting tables i was a bartender i was a
part-time personal trainer
for about two years after college i got
to a point where
i knew that there was something more
that i wanted to do or there had to be
something else out there
so i decided one night on a whim to
apply to culinary school in new york
city so i found my apartment and my
roommates
on craigslist which my parents
immediately thought well she's
definitely going to be dead when she
moves there
if it's not bad enough i was fully gonna
have like a movie night
at home i was gonna relax and my
roommate happened to have a friend in
town
and she begged me to go out with them
and i was not gonna go out that night
we went out one thing led to another and
i saw
this really tall guy the tallest guy for
sure
in the the place we were this this club
downtown in manhattan
and i thought to myself well tall guy
blonde
was into that and i was like okay and we
hung out that whole night we had a great
time
and when we left that night somebody
that was with our group of friends said
something like well you know who that
was
you were hanging out with all night and
i was like no and they said well that's
donald trump's son i was like what first
of all i
i knew who donald trump was i think i
knew about ivanka because i got like
teen magazine or something back in the
day and i'm pretty sure she was in that
i didn't know about don jr eric's
brother
certainly didn't know about eric and i
was like okay i didn't even know donald
trump had
a son but that's that's fine never
really figured i would see him again
and we got married on november 8 2014
which if you recall in 2016 november 8th
was election day
so that was our nice anniversary treat
i had gone down to north carolina to a
rally
in my hometown of wilmington with my
father-in-law
he did what donald trump always does he
asks people's opinions of things you
know i was from the state and that was
my hometown and blah blah blah
so he asked me about the way things were
being run one thing led to another and i
i gave him my thoughts about things and
he kind of like sat back and looked at
me and i was like oh no
either i said something really right or
really wrong and he was like you know
what
i'm going to put you in charge of
winning north carolina could you do that
for me could you win north carolina
i mean i had no idea about anything
politics-wise i had no experience in any
of this
but of course i was there in the moment
with my father-in-law and i was like
yes of course i could win you in the
state of north carolina
so as soon as i got outside i called my
husband and i was like i don't really
know what just happened but i think your
dad
put me in charge of winning the state of
north carolina um
and important state very important and i
had taken that day off of work it was
like a tuesday or something and i'd
taken it off of work
so i had to go back to work the next day
and i remember i went in
and i talked to my executive producer
and i was like um i'm pretty sure i'm
gonna need to take a leave of absence
for
about three and a half months oh no what
happened ma'am
you want some more water come on luke
let's go this way and now that people
are out golfing
the trick is to not get hit by golf
balls while we're out here too
or get in anyone's way yes obviously an
important
thing too this is generally fun when
everyone's cooperative
i mean a lot of the reason that i work
out is to stay sane
it's the one time of the day that i'm
sort of by myself don't have to deal
with anyone or anything else usually
the best part out here is that they all
know like i'm the crazy lady with the
dogs
and the kid or kids come on luke
my mom comes up all the time hey
my mom comes up all the time to help me
with the kids um to stay with them if
i'm
out of town like over a weekend or
something yeah well i didn't have kids
in 2016. i have two now
i think about all the time the fact that
i'm not gonna be able to see my kids
that much for
several months in a row i'm sure and
it's a temporary thing but at this age
kids are changing growing so much
now every time i facetime my son he
cries
of course which never makes you feel
good this glimpse into the trump world
made me curious how many more of these
stories
are there she invited the crew to tag
along
and find out
as a member of the first family you
don't just get in the car and go
but i have to admit riding with the
secret service was pretty cool
are you going to get on the other side
so it feels always very good to get back
excited to be here and i come i'm back
like once a week now once
twice a week sometimes so yeah i saw him
briefly yesterday did you see us
hi
every time luke
hey can you say hi to mom
hi ben hi charlie
oh there's benjamin you're very handsome
hey luke
come here and give me a kiss i'll talk
to you later i love you
that was a better display
recently when i've been calling him he's
just been like hysterical like just
burst into tears and lays down on the
floor and cries so
that was a better uh better show
i got a couple of love use
i don't have a key to get in here
thank you sir how are you i just had a
very uh nice breakthrough with luke when
i
called normally he's been like freaking
out just hysterically crying right
and he just he responded to me and oh
hitting his face
oh
hello what did we have i have that off
that calendar we were working on yeah
oh i was going to ask you about that
where is it where is it right now let's
go to fox first
because then we can yeah then we can
make it and it's such a big issue
they're all doing reopening schools
mercedes reputation i think preceded her
she has now worked in two different
white houses
and she was at the white house before
coming over to the campaign
raising the kids is my top priority one
of the biggest stresses i have in my
life is making sure
i'm able to be there for my children and
not miss out
in their lives because it goes by so
fast
i mean matt the girls everyone has been
so supportive of
allowing me to work for this president
and now work for the campaign
well basically you just try to get uh
more queens
okay i don't know if you can cancel that
one raise my children
i think they're going to try to do the
women bus tours every week almost i'm
like literally like i looked at laura
and i was like okay how are we going to
do this okay
so i'll just take a kid a kid a trip i
think maybe
i'm excited to just go out and see
another state because
i don't really get i've never seen
wisconsin it's going to be interesting
so yeah i'm just i'm excited freedom and
spreading
that message is what i feel called to do
every day
mercy fox news is calling okay all right
why are the kids playing poker
because your mother taught them how to
play poker
this is the path to victory to get
independent and moderate voters on the
fence in
michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin
let's welcome back to the show
trump 2020 senior advisor mercedes it's
always great to have you back on
mercedes what are the far left policies
the president is talking about here
look i think you're seeing for example
many of these liberal media outlets
just criticizing and attacking the
president
for any move that he makes well when you
look at the president's policies
they're common sense policies that
mainstream americans can agree with
of the fakest rumors of all rumors the
president didn't have women working for
him and didn't like strong women do
anything
i mean i believe the president was the
first one to ever hire a woman to build
a building in new york
and when i showed up at trump tower i
met a whole bunch of powerful women
and the women within the family
including the president's wife
people think that melania is just
walking around beautiful what she is
i had actually met melania and worked
with her prior to even knowing the
president
she was very strong business wise knew
exactly what she wanted
and then as as i met laura and as i met
ivanka and as i met other
you know women in the um around the
trump organization
i found out that a lot of women were
what makes this place tick
every week we get some press inquiries
you guys have no women on your campaign
or
um or women are never promoted or women
are never senior staff
there's always something somewhere along
the way
that the president hates women and
doesn't value them
it's just so not true we're not only
like a
majority senior staff female we're
pretty much like a majority female staff
overall being a working mom and and
having the role that i do on this
campaign i think just speaks volumes to
how
good of a man the president is how good
of a family he has
i mean they empower me so much
not only to succeed at reelecting the
president or
run my department or be the best
operative that it can be but they also
empower me to be the best
working mom that i can be i am like one
of the only not moms on the campaign but
at one point we had like two babies
in the office like a month after and
they just like stop in and
i like well you know we'd hang out with
kaylee or hannah's baby if they had a
big meeting
um but that's just that's a lot that
happens here and they really believe
like women can take charge can have a
seat at the table
you want to create an environment that
women do feel that they have a voice
they have something to say what you said
about our campaign now almost 60
women i think it's important to note
that wasn't
because we wanted so many women this is
because we hire the best people for the
job it happened to be women
and there are so many women you never
get this narrative out there
from the mainstream media but so many
women that want to be a part of the
president's campaign that want to be a
part of this
they tried to stop us from telling that
story in 2016 and that's why i got out
on the road with a bus full of women and
said there are women that support
donald trump well by the way talk about
another strong woman ronna hi guys how
are you
sorry i just popped in for our meetings
right now the chair of
the republican national committee former
stay-home mom
only the president would say let's take
that stay-home mom and have her run the
party
what a smart guy well by the way but
this is another example i mean i didn't
even
yeah it wasn't even like in my my sphere
but
literally you have a woman in charge of
the republican party
under president donald trump it's always
ironic that media
trying to sell a narrative that's not
true because they just say it enough
times and
and the fact they don't say they're
strong women and women opinions of the
trump administration i mean you have a
lot of history with women kellyanne the
first
campaign manager you had sarah sanders
who was the first press secretary
with children i'm only the second woman
in history
to run there and see i mean he really
has made a lot of history
and when i see what what laura's done
when i say what you've done rana you
know in terms of i know your kids pretty
well at this point and
um i can tell you it's not easy i can
tell you my wife has a substantially
harder job than i might run a big
company and i might be very involved
with the campaign but
you know you really do do a phenomenal
job with kids and she is present and she
will wake them up every single morning
and she will be the first one
changing their diapers and she will feed
them and she will take care of them and
she will organize all their activities
and then she will be on the radio and
the kids will
be running up to her literally as you
know she's on with some host and she'll
play it off and she does it with
glamour and grace and and beauty and
just a funny story about that we were
doing a conference call the other day
and i was like who's taking a bath
oh that was hilarious i was giving
carolina a bath brad was like is someone
in the bathtub we were on a zoom call
and i left my phone on the counter so i
couldn't mute it
i didn't know everybody i have to say
though
i mean brad you all have been very
supportive of the moms here at the
campaign the mega moms
you know that i've got five kids and
it's you didn't stop from hiring me
and how many women were pregnant all at
the same time it was like between
hannah and you and hayley at the time
and i think that there was a lot of
support that we get because i think you
all value
what we're able to continue i think it
makes you stronger i mean i think it
makes it makes you more relevant to
understand as well like
if we can't get moms what are we doing
this for right and so that's what we're
fighting you know we're fighting for
every
american family so we should have
american families here
i love the women of trump because
they're such strong and powerful
and opinionated women
the positive message is not getting out
to the public which is why we're doing
what we're doing
we do these tours to bypass the media to
go directly to local and regional
and talk about the accomplishment to the
president
it seemed odd to be the one telling the
story about the women in trump's orbit
why me was no one else willing to
does it underscore the problem one
sentence
and you don't play the rest it's very
misleading to the public
mr trump talks about the policies of the
middle east after the quote you just
play from the rally
i actually feel like i have three
different lives
i have my life of work
i have my life of family
and then i have my life we just got back
from a bus tour which we're going to be
having probably one every other week
if not every week i love it and it's fun
when we're doing it
it's just craziness all the time
and it's just sensory overload for me
i have this routine and it's probably
completely
opposite of anybody else i come home i
fall out on my bed for about 30 minutes
just to
decompress the events the the meetings
and all the engagements because i know
i only have about 30 minutes before the
phone's gonna start ringing or the
emails are gonna come in
so is the round table at the church oh
no we're leaving to go to the round
table got it okay
i'm i'm ready i've been on the plane but
also
like my brother-in-law don has been on
the plane as well and we are not sitting
together
and so i can hear these people saying
things about my brother-in-law and it's
very hard
because my reaction my initial reaction
is that
i want to get up and i want to get in
their face and say like listen you've
got this wrong like we're good people
and what everything you've heard is not
true out there
but i can't do that i mean sadly if i
did something like that i would seem i
would be a crazy person
and it would be just a ton of negative
coverage
but it's very hard i think it's really
hard for anybody to hear
information that they know is false and
especially about people
who you love and care about and you know
really fight so hard every single day
you know to to hear the media spread
lies about you it's it's hard it's very
frustrating
like there are people in my grade who
will literally like nudge me and be like
i love trump because they know my
parents and it's kind of sad because
like now even kids are afraid to say
like
that they like trump because people will
shame you people will
and it's like it's kind of sad because
it's hard to express who you
are when everybody just if you don't
think the same way as you they don't
accept you should we turn up the volume
to see what they're saying
yeah hello everyone i hope you all had
an enjoyable weekend
i have some brief announcements for you
today
violence looting anarchy are not to be
tolerated
chris cuomo saying show me where it says
protesters are supposed to be peaceful
i'll give you an idea chris it's the
constitution
like i was just walking in watching cnn
as they lauded the quote
rallies in the streets are you saying
the president got to let me finish jen
this isn't a cable news segment i'm
answering your question right now from
the white house podium
those people should be jailed the people
you just mentioned i never said that
those are your words not mine but
perhaps you should look into it and give
me some answers
oh that's a very nice tie by the way
thank you very much did anyone take it
upon themselves to
pose any questions about michael flynn
unmasking the president obama's
spokesperson
oh not a single journalist has posed
that question okay
does president trump believe that it was
a good thing
that the south lost the civil war say
what
and i just want to leave you with a
quote from martin luther king jr that we
must learn to live together as brothers
or we will perish together as fools
thank
i you know if these are the ones that
she recommended something something
is daddy making you oh my gosh that's it
looks terrible i'm telling you
do you have something other than the
silver spoon i like that spoon that was
given as a gift to us
that doesn't look good what's daddy
making you eat
i've loved politics from kindergarten
on it was just something that was innate
i remember in college intern for
congressman adam putnam um on the hill
i interned in the white house actually
um for president george w
bush and i was in the office of media
affairs and i remember distinctly the
day i got to go to a white house press
briefing and i got to watch dana perrino
do a briefing and i was standing off to
the corner and i remember looking at
carl cameron who was the fox
correspondent asking her questions and
i would have never guessed that i don't
know 10 years later so that i would be
the one behind the podium
my mom raised three kids and i always
you know respected that
she you know worked so hard to
raise us and i guess i never truly
appreciated it
until i had a child of my own being a
mom is
truly the most challenging but the most
exciting job in the world
i think realizing just how much it
entailed
just really made me respect moms in
general and my mom for sure
my mom traveled the country with me with
blake and while she was out all day
blake and i kind of just stayed in the
hotel room a lot of times
a lot of the places it was really cold
it was snowing outside
so um we got to bond and it was
beautiful it was an experience that
i'll never forget shawn and i we didn't
really take parenting classes
we didn't read books well you read part
of a book
so when she came we were like just
figuring it out on the fly
hey pee it's okay
i know she wants more food it's all gone
there ain't any more food you can yeah
you want me to do that when my food's
over too yeah maybe just a
little one good job
maybe diaper time i don't know well we
got stuff up there too
say bye-bye
it sunk in i was going to go take this
new role and
i mean i remember just holding blake
actually right there and i just started
crying and like literally my tears were
like
falling on her because i was so sad
thinking about her not being with me all
the time
and then all of a sudden she lit up with
what i think was her very first smile
and it was just like
her way of saying go do this mommy and
god's way of saying i want you to do it
so that's the first secretary are you
okay
yeah it was my phone oh okay so this is
not blank
programs for me to be a part of which
was i worked with children's cancer
groups which is really important to me
at the various hospitals in san
francisco
like ucsf and it was a really rewarding
experience kimberly guilfoyle i mean
her background is so so impressive as a
prosecutor
she started dating my brother-in-law don
and it was just a natural fit for her to
come over to the campaign
we were on a alligator uh hunt one time
oh my goodness
and then uh one of our friends dared
dawn to go in and swim with the
gators so of course he did it i mean i
was like what is going on here i was i'm
gonna have to dive in and like get him
out of there and whatever
gone so tough like his dad too i mean
look every day is an adventure
when you think about it they were trying
to put him in jail and can you imagine
you come home and it says
uh don jr is guilty of treason
punishable by
death i was like well let's make tonight
a good night because apparently
according to cnn
there he is singing your praises
come sit for a second say hi rap one of
the things i think that is so important
when people really see and they resonate
they understand and feel a little bit
closer to the president because they get
to meet don
interact with them very personable and
out there fighting
for his father and i think it shows you
look how much he loves his dad and his
family and willing to sacrifice against
incredible odds
with everybody coming after him and he's
really been besides his father
the you know biggest target and i want
to retire and let kimberly just fight
for me it's so much easier
she does such a better job anyway i just
know when to get out of the way
uh you know between honestly you know
just between
you know my mother my sister my
daughters kimberly you know the
your grandma the grandma they're all
very just you know
impressive women you know just you know
go-getters you know very alpha
uh you know and they just do it and so
uh it's awesome to see and my father's
really surrounded himself by
them his entire life 30 years before
other people were doing the same thing
because he sees competence
uh and he rewards it
president donald j racist is a person
who they bigot
and is in the white house his comments
about those women were racist
it seems to me like the president will
not be happy until there is not
one single female republican voter in
the country
he was lauded all over the world as one
of the greatest businessman
men of all times and then all of a
sudden he decides to run for president
and it switches and you have people
coming after you like i really don't
think any president has had to deal with
the media did the best that they could
to try and rebrand him because before
the 2016 campaign donald trump was a
beloved american icon
internationally known 100 name
recognition
hollywood star right and then all of a
sudden he's running as a republican and
he's
the enemy he's the devil he's a russian
spy i mean these are all the crazy
things
that came out after donald trump the
good news is
he had 40 years of a brand these same
people who are
trashing him on these news networks for
the same people that wanted to attend
parties with him
without derek zoolander male modeling
wouldn't be what it is today
excuse me where's the lobby down the
hall and to the left
thanks mr and mrs
donald trump
it's the donald oh my god
when you look at donald trump the man
who has a documented record out there
that
the entire 80s has been erased the
entire 90s
have been erased donald trump's history
was never brought up between the 80s and
90s with regards to race or women
or people would have to acknowledge the
fact that it was
donald trump who worked with jesse
jackson and there's video of jesse
jackson himself
praising donald trump for being a
builder of communities and a builder of
people praising donald trump for the
space
that he gave to black men to help them
get involved in
wall street i do want to express thanks
to you
donald trump for being with us tonight
he is a man that sees potential
he doesn't see race he doesn't see
gender he sees potential
he sees people he's humbled um that he's
given this job that so few in the
history of our country can say they've
had
he's enjoyable to be around and it's not
surprising because i think when you
watch his rallies
it's he's enjoyable to watch and i think
just to see behind the scenes
that he is the same person he is in
front of the cameras that he's just as
funny behind the scenes and
it's not the case i think with every
president where there's this scripted
image of who the person
is out here and then who he is behind
the doors of the oval office is a
complete mystery
this is the same person what do you want
to be
that's a good idea so you want your own
business
and you're going to make a lot of money
right but don't
run for politics after you leave he will
probably be
the only president to come out of office
with less money
than when he went in because he's not
doing this to write a tell-all book his
memoir
we all know donald trump already we've
always known him
the trump winery sits on the monticello
wine trail
just outside charlottesville virginia
carrie woolard manages the property
she offered to show us a round via the
scenic route
i don't think there's a lot of turnovers
there's a lot of exits
just never know there's a rest stop
right here
it's kind of fun up here yeah i'm sure
i've had great ambitions of being a
doctor which is what i wanted to do
since the time i was a little little kid
moved to charlottesville and worked at a
winery for what i thought was just going
to be a year
i was loving what i was doing in the
wine industry
and and here i am when trump purchased
the property it was in receivership so
it was
quite distressed this is their first
winery and
they needed a bit of help so they asked
some of the experts in virginia
who would you recommend who can help us
here to really bring this place back to
where
we know it can be and in doing so my
name came up a couple different times so
eric
um got my number actually called me at
work
uh to to which i told him that i really
couldn't talk to him while i was at work
but if he gave me his number i would
call him back
so later that evening i called him back
a couple days later i was on a plane to
new york to interview
and i i think like less than a week
later you know i had a cell phone in an
email and had given notice and
um was already you know starting to work
on the project here before i was even
officially
in an office there's women in the
company that
i look up to and have since i started
you know i've been here
eight years and even when i began there
are women
and that are that still work in the
corporate office who have been
with him for 20 years and 25 years and
they're
women who have accomplishments beyond
what most people would imagine
we ask that you would bestow upon our
president the wisdom
necessary to lead this great nation
the grace to unify us and the strength
to stand for what is honorable
and right in your sight i've been in his
life 19 years
i was in my office and they said to me
mr trump's on the line i was like yeah
yeah sure
i thought they were playing around with
me so they're like
paula mr trump's on the line so i get on
and sure enough his receptionist robin
answers and
picks up and said mr trump would like to
speak to you i hear this distinguished
voice that most people you know have had
some kind of
knowledge or some kind of you know have
heard about
so he said to me i've been watching you
on television he told me how he was
confirmed presbyterian
how his mother was a very godly woman
and
praying woman how he grew up
going to saturday and sunday school then
he would talk about
i went to see dr david jeremiah or how
his dad took him to dr billy graham
crusades and he loved selves loves dr
billy graham
he was really drawn to the passion
and the move of god and the spirit of
god so he said well when you're
when you're up here why don't you stop
by the office so i did and i thought
you know this will be a waiting line or
this way and he was just so
accommodating
and so this actually became very regular
in routine so whenever i was ever in new
york you'd say stop
by and i think well he's going to kick
me out of the office you know or
something and i'd stay there for
thinking five or ten minutes and i'd end
up sometimes being there for
hours and i'm like just a fly on the
wall and it was
it was quite fascinating to me how much
he had been formed by several things um
and
faith being one of them so we are
headed down into the barrel cave
between the oak and the wine and oh my
it smells
amazing when you come in here
come in here taste a little wine check
in on see how everything's aging and
go from there 2019 was a
great vintage virginia it's going to be
one of the banner vintages i think we've
had
it was only the second time that he had
visited the property so
i was a little bit nervous you know i
was still new to
the company and it's strange to say that
he's down to earth
but he is very down to earth and has
this ability to make you feel at ease
very quickly it was just uh
eric mr trump myself so just the three
of us
so we're going in and out of every
building getting in and out of the car
dozens of times and mr trump opened my
car door for me
every single time we stopped and got out
of the car
and it got so almost embarrassing that
at one point throughout the day
i actually let out a little bit of a
giggle like i think it was just a
nervousness and i was embarrassed
and i was like oh my gosh i'm so sorry
and you know and he looked at me and he
was just like absolutely not
like that is just what i do it's always
what i'm gonna do
we had a huge painting crew and he
wanted to meet them
and even further than just shaking their
hand and introducing himself
he actually stopped to ask me if it was
okay first
i think it's very clear that it is who
he is to the poor
without cameras without people looking
no one's around no one to impress so
that that's the
mr trump that i know
all right if we can't do anything on the
west wing obviously we could come over
here on the from the east wing
um like i i'm in the waiting area like
that i forgot the room it's officially
called
laura arranged for us to get a few words
from the president himself
turns out he's a pretty busy guy
while waiting for the boss i met a few
of the women who lead their departments
within the white house
starting with stephanie grisham this is
us in the oval office
mrs trump was filming a psa i felt like
there was a hair out of place so
i stopped everything and she thought it
was hilarious because i was trying to
fix her hair
and i love this picture because it's it
catches her she's
she laughs all the time she's got the
best sense of humor
i think it says a lot about both of you
and your relationship together
it's pretty cool i think so i got a call
from somebody saying
donald trump is coming to town would you
mind working
a rally because i had worked for romney
doing advanced work for him
and i kind of thought oh oh
it's donald trump and i love the
apprentice so this will be just fun to
watch
after seeing the energy in that room and
after seeing how he packed the room
that wasn't look again it was donald
trump that early
but the things he said and he was just
so authentic
and for me in my life
to see him be so authentic meant a lot
to me and the first time i met him
he he asked about me he asked about my
family
and there's there was no judgment and he
seemed genuinely interested
and so i called all the other candidates
after that and i said i'm i'm done
i'm gonna go work for him and here i am
after that we met up with kellyanne
conway
the most important role i'll ever have
is mom
and i've been blessed with four children
who are now teens and tweens
they have sacrificed mightily for mom's
job in the public eye
and i'm trying to do my very small part
to help improve the lives of people who
don't have voices and don't have choices
and they never felt like they mattered
or that somebody was giving them voice
and visibility
because typical political speak and
politicians
would promise them the sun moon and
stars and deliver very little
and that's just a way to get votes
donald trump rolled the dice he he
didn't need this job i mean the idea
that donald trump
became the president is truly remarkable
on many
levels for many reasons but to bring
that businessman's perspective
the problem solver the crisis manager
the person who
needs to have tangible results he's a
builder he can't just talk about
building he can't just
have a commission of architects talk
about what the building may look like no
you have to build
the building and all that that means so
that people can walk into it and work
and live and that's been such a
remarkable
refreshing aspect of this presidency
while we were there
kaylee texted and introduced us to
alyssa farah
who then gave us a tour of the
eisenhower building i know you've had
several roles on the hill and even
within the white house here itself
first time you met the president if you
remember that the first time that i met
the president
i was working for the vice president
mike pence
i was so nervous i he came into a
roosevelt room meeting that the vice
president was leading
and he turned to me and said hi smiley
i'm guarantee he does not remember that
to this day but i was smiling so wide
because i was just excited to see him
um but now i've got to spend quite a bit
of time with him it's
i i remember this every day as i walk on
a campus just to stop
say a quick prayer of thank you and
gratitude that i get to be there and
that i get to serve this particular
president
um he's a remarkable man the more time
you spend with him behind closed doors
the more you understand what makes him
such a strong leader for our nation
we also met with brooke rollins who's
been with the president
since his campaign i'm not sure quite
how it happened but every day
i along with all of my colleagues we
pinch ourselves
because we believe we have the greatest
job at the most important time
in our country's history and so to stand
alongside
this president at this point in time and
fighting for the very soul of america
is is a gift that defies any sort of
definition or explanation but one that
we
all understand uh is beyond anything
that we are
ourselves and part of something so much
bigger
we found out the president needs to push
our meeting back a bit
back to the waiting room i guess
i was tired and i think a lot of people
are tired of watching other countries
ripping off the united states this is a
great country
country's losing 200 billion dollars a
year when i build a building a lot of
the material has to come from china
because
well that's different right no it's
terrible because of the united states
david it's terrible i wish it weren't so
but they manipulate their currency and
they make it very very hard to buy
products
in this country and with good leadership
you could stop that immediately
my father-in-law got continually
frustrated i think by what he saw
happening in so many
cases across this country and he kept
saying like this isn't right this isn't
how it should be done
and i know people have talked to you
about whether or not you want to run
would you would you ever
i probably wouldn't but i do get tired
of seeing what's happening with this
country and if it got so bad
i would never want to rule it out
totally i think the
radicalism of the obama years
and the kind of tearing down america
really ripped at him
he begins to call me pastor in early
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,760
those of us who are christians in a
ministry understand
that's quite a step that's quite a step
so that says quite a bit for him to ask
me to
break bread with him open the word with
him pray over him
pray for his family seek god calls me
over to the office and he said
i want you to pray i said about what he
said i'm thinking about running for
president this is 2011.
and i said okay he said i really need to
hear from god
and he said i've got to make a pretty
big decision he said paul can you bring
some people around to pray
so we did i brought about 20 people 20
pastors that i'm
very close to or new and we went there
to trump tower
we prayed for six hours he wasn't in
there the entire time but almost the
entire time
and it wasn't about can you know get
get people around me i want to know what
they have to say i want another opinion
not at all it was pure unadulterated
um seeking god what does god have to say
so the next morning he calls me over and
he said
paula what do you think god's saying i
mean i remember
and i'm not a real you know teary type
of girl at all
and i remember this tear coming down
barely i
said it's not the timing but i
knew that he was going to run and be
president
i knew it in 2011 and i said as
a friend as someone that
i care about little did i understand
what i was saying then
i said i hate to see
what you would go through i said but our
nation will need it
one of my favorite memories that i have
was
actually having dinner in the 21 club
in new york with mr trump and eric and
then governor mcauliffe who was the
governor of virginia who was you know
part of the
dnc with the clintons and so mr trump
was asking
tons of questions and expressing his
frustration and
i remember sort of sitting there in
fascination
and in awe of what i was able to be a
part of and listen to
and i should have had clued in that
night that
that's what was coming
so my father-in-law's birthday happens
to be flag day
june 14th and if you remember he
announced he was running
on june 16th so we all went to have
dinner with him at bedminster at the
the golf club for his birthday and it
was at that birthday dinner when
he really said to all of us this is this
is real
i i want to do this but i'll never
forget what else he said
because he said this isn't just about me
this is about our whole family and
there's no way that somebody runs for
president
and they don't drag everybody in so i
need to know from you
of course that you guys understand what
that means
and that everybody is on board and i
kind of think if any one of us had said
like
maybe we're not into this i don't know
necessarily we wouldn't have done it but
i think we could have had a conversation
about it nobody even hesitated we said
absolutely we're on board but i remember
he also said charlie get off
he also said now they're going to come
after us they're not going to make it
easy
there's going to be lies written about
us they're going to say all
everything they can politics is a nasty
business
but i think this is the right thing to
do wow was he right on that right
oh my gosh i get a phone call i was
in my kitchen in florida he goes up
paula what you doing you know how are
you and i said i'm great sir how are you
and he said i'm running for president
and you're going to oversee faith and i
thought
and with all due respect of course he
knew what he was doing but i thought i
certainly don't know what i'm doing
the american dream is dead
but if i get elected president i will
bring it back
bigger and better and stronger
than ever before and we will make
america great again thank you thank you
very much
everybody knew donald trump but then
when he came out
and started talking like we all talk and
saying the things that we were all
thinking and
and speaking about the things that were
sort of under the surface that no one
wanted to address but
they weren't right and we had to fix
them people i think for the first time
in a long time
had hope that things would change there
was something going on
and it was very reminiscent to me as a
tea party person when we started out
with 200 people at an event
and ended up with 34 000. it was like
that energy was back
and but this time we had a leader
which republican candidate has the best
chance of winning the general election
of the declared ones right now donald
trump
that was the moment that everyone said
was impossible according to the experts
the pundits the whole group of them
hillary clinton has a 100 chance of
winning over 60 percent of republicans
aren't going to vote for donald trump
if trump does win the party's nomination
he claims he won't stand a chance
against hillary clinton you have to
understand he cannot win
going into this night where do we stand
268 to 204
so clearly an advantage for secretary
clinton we have our first woman
president soon to be hillary clinton
elected president of the united states
but
the vote is sacred until the people
speak we don't celebrate
it was so late and nobody wanted to call
anything
i called eric and i said i need you to
come down to my office i need to show
you something
eric kind of leaned on the computer and
i'm sitting there and i go
look right there that's the moment the
data crossed the line
and eric was like you're serious and i
was like yeah
we won this was election day i said now
it's just a matter of time of
of waiting for it to all come in and for
everyone to believe it when it became
very evident that he was going to win
and he started quickly working on the
acceptance speech and
still hadn't heard from hillary clinton
and everybody was like well where's
hillary
the president is in the dining room
somewhere outside the kitchen staircase
camera exactly whereas i walk up to him
i said sir
i have the raw data we want you want sir
and he was like oh they called it yet
they called it and bannon's standing
next to me and kelly and they're like
they haven't called it yet on cnn or
asia i said i have the raw data
our team says you have won it's just a
matter of time now i would get ready to
go
but nobody had heard from her and and
everyone kept saying well look until she
calls and concedes
and says like you won we can't
officially
say like that that you won this election
my father-in-law said well we can't just
leave these people there these people
have been there for like 12
hours look at how close he is right now
he has 257
electoral votes he needs 13 more 270
to be elected president of the united
states and dana
he is getting incredibly incredibly
close jake
and the wall comes tumbling down i mean
this is this is truly the beginning of
the end for hillary clinton's campaign
associate press still won't call it
they're double checking their numbers if
you look at this again let's go
pennsylvania 97
hold on one second i want to go back to
general right now diana what are you
learning
you know well if i have wolf i have a
little bit of information but i just
want to be sure that
i have it right that's why i reported to
you so go back and talk to john
we were backstage as we were you know he
was preparing to go out
there and i'm so mad i actually went to
the bathroom
i know i went to the bathroom and i was
like i've got i've got to go just real
quick so i ran to the bathroom
and as i'm coming back everyone is like
huddled around him so i kind of like
squirmed my way through
i was like what's going on and my
husband said
it's hillary and i was like oh my gosh
and he was in the middle of a
conversation with her
and it was very cordial i mean they
they've known each other
for years i mean maybe 20 years
and he hung up the phone and we were all
just kind of there with like baited
breath like
well like what happened and he said well
it's official that's it let's go do it
decision desk has called this means that
donald trump
will be the 45th president of the united
states
winning the most unreal
surreal election we have ever seen
it is my high honor and distinct
privilege
to introduce to you the president-elect
of the united states of america donald
trump
thank you very much
sorry to keep you waiting complicated
business
complicated to get to that moment
to realize that it was it was real that
he had
won the presidency literally defying all
the odds out there
i mean there was just a moment of of
sort of shock for all of us because
although we felt it we've been even been
beaten into us
like i think so many people in this
country that there was no chance for
donald trump
now it's time for america to bind the
wounds
of division have to get together
to all republicans and democrats and
independents across this nation
i say it is time for us
to come together as one united people
we probably got home at like 4 30 in the
morning or something
didn't get much sleep and i mean we
couldn't sleep like how do you sleep
after that i pledge to every citizen of
our land
that i will be president for all
americans
and this is so important to me
i guess it was just surreal you are go
go go go go
constant like work and work and working
hard and fighting and fighting
and then you get to this moment and
we're sort of like okay now like
what do we do now now what
maybe he's dealing with china
i feel like ultimately the rule of law
needs to be followed by a president
and this president has shown a contempt
for the rule of law and seems to kind of
i think it's fairly obvious that he's
violated the constitution in a number of
ways
i think that president trump has
demeaned the office disgraced the office
of the president
i would say at least a weekly if not a
daily basis
the number of inaccurate unfounded
stories written either about me
my husband the trump organization
clearly the president when you look at
the media's approval rating which is
often very low it's
the american people recognizing that
there was a harvard study done of the
president's first hundred days in office
and they found that he got historic
negative coverage historic this is trump
world
everybody in it is a liar it's really
the beginning of the end
the beginning of the end he may be
feeling the walls closing in on him all
the walls closing in on him
the walls closing in on him he is a liar
there was just so much lying tonight one
astrologer says this means the beginning
of the end for president donald trump
the beginning of the end of the trump
presidency uh he's a bigot
it is racist he's a narcissist he's
always hated women to me it's just
people being gullible
is this the tipping point i know we've
said it over and over
you think this is a tipping point and
over and over this is a
tipping point and over and over the
trump family is a criminal enterprise
obstruction of justice obstruction of
justice obstruction of justice
obstruction of justice obstruction of
justice this is the beginning at the end
the beginning of the end the walls are
closing in the walls closing in an
obstruction of justice to an obstruction
argument this is a very dramatic day and
i think it might be near a tipping point
do you think this is a tipping point
it's all so sad 93
negative media coverage it's just a
saturation from the mainstream media
skit's done on saturday night live where
boy kate mckinnon captured me perfectly
i've had a bad hair life here to help
make sense of this is trump senior
advisor kellyanne conway
thank you jake happy to be here
and then donald trump won and then it
all changed
i remember we used to go at inside
edition
over to trump tower like once a week to
get a sound bite from my father-in-law
about whatever the the topic of the day
was you know because he always had an
opinion that he would share
part of the reason they were killed was
incompetence
under this administration it was just so
interesting how quickly it shifted
and it became hard for me because these
producers
that would write the stories and and you
know cut pieces together for a show that
day
who i knew very well they knew that i
was going to see this stuff
would choose the worst photos of my
father-in-law would take
you know his words out of context and i
would go back to their edit base and be
like guys
i know we've got a better picture than
that of the pres of donald trump like
please i know that you know what he said
let's play the full
clip there but that became really hard
for me because
i wasn't used to that feeling that like
i was being like our family was being
attacked
my father-in-law was being attacked and
i didn't like it
when congressman elijah cummings calls
you a racist
your reaction is what well i think the
word has really
gone down a long way because everybody's
called a racist now uh her own party
called nancy pelosi a racist it's all
about guilt
and it's all about trying to destroy who
you are as a person
from 2016 to now there's this narrative
you know donald trump is
racist the sexist the misogynist of
course he's a racist
i have no examples for you but he's
definitely a racist like just because
everyone knows
i don't have to explain it because
everyone knows it's so ridiculous
right i have a little sister she's 12.
so she's a young
latina woman look at this girl this is
like how
this is what her concept of a president
will be framed at
70 percent of americans say a racist
xenophobe
misogynistic but here's what it all
boils down in the white house
how is he like how's working on the
campaign it was just like
did he like black people yes i'm here
racist sexist misogynist i even pointed
to myself on the tv screen during a cnn
interview once because
you just have to be deaf dumb and blind
to believe that
when you look at donald trump's history
and
you see the number of women that he's
empowered
when you see the number of minorities
that he's empowered
i've seen the attitudes of changing our
communities people are just hopeful
again you can't deny the historic first
step back
criminal justice reform that should have
been done a long time ago
i've met some racist in my life donald
trump is not one of them
how are you so what's your experience in
front of the world
donald trump's closest advisors are
women
but that is something that gets lost
about this man all the time
it has never mattered what someone looks
like their gender anything about their
background to donald trump
his number one question is can you get
the job done for me
and a lot of times women can get the job
done and he knows that
some of the smartest most talented
women that i have seen are people who
work
for or around president trump he loves
killers he tells me all the time
kimberly you're a killer we like to tell
other countries that they need women's
empowerment and gender equality and all
these things but we
look to our own selves and we see we've
never had
obviously a female president every time
in 2016 i got that question about
you know well you're a woman wouldn't
you want a woman to be the president of
the united states
it made me more and more angry that
people legitimately thought that was a
reason
to vote for somebody i mean i can't
think of a worse reason
to vote for a person than what they they
look like
people just want to be treated like
people and respect it as such and
just because i'm a woman doesn't mean
i'm going to vote for a woman
if she wants to destroy everything about
my femininity he chose me for the
positions i have because he believes in
me
and he believed i had the best ability
to be able to fulfill these roles
that's actually respectful to women i
don't want a job
because of my gender i want the job
because i'm the best person for that
position
you know i have gut instinct okay and
we're allowed to have that
and i looked at her and she asked a
question and it was a very
positive question she looks like she's
got a great look and she's
look at that with the tears how nice
she's just a good
she just seemed like a good person to me
the attacks
are difficult um and it isn't
necessarily difficult for me and i think
for the
the ladies and the gentlemen frankly
that we work with but for our families
the thing where it gets hard and is
troublesome and worrisome or
you know the people on social media
those people are
you know a little much um
you know i just don't understand where
they get off saying something like that
to somebody that they don't
know um you know they don't know her
they don't know anything about her
don't know me and you know they just the
personal
like attack on your family you know it's
just like
you know a fan you know in the stadium
or whatever
they mouth off and it's the same thing
you can't say anything back
if you hear it you hear it and move on
for me i mean when i see people attack
me it doesn't faze me it motivates me it
just makes me want to do my job
even better we take our elections
seriously and we believe in election
integrity
justin i was not on the call caitlyn
stop filibustering justin let your
colleagues ask
questions like the book i asked her well
she's here for this purpose
she's doing a great job and she's
fighting a fight that's worth fighting
and uh very very proud yeah very proud
you just tell her to keep
as all you s keep people with the truth
everything else is easy right you tell
the truth the truth wins out
always goes
all right ladies and gentlemen
quick question before we get started who
here is ready for four more years of
donald trump
thank you for everything thank you for
everything
tell him i said thank you for everything
i would often tell him
the stories that we would hear out on
the road and he loved hearing them and
he referenced them sometimes in
interviews he did or in speeches that he
gave and it's not just the
the write in the person's name joe the
plumber stuff these are people who
really told me their stories with tears
in their eyes and poured their hearts
out to me
and they did the same to him he actually
not only would go
and talk to waiters but i feel like he
would seek out people
like the janitorial staff or the
housekeeping staff right
because those people don't generally
directly interact with the management
all the time
and that he knew he would get the real
truth from those people and like
whatever so he would want to get like
the low down on everything
from them and he would go straight to
them and ask how
how's everything doing and you know how
are we doing how do you feel like
everything's going anything we can
improve on
what are you seeing what are you hearing
we're staying in this kitchen and the
wait staff is just
waiting and so trump looks over to the
guy that's about to go out and wait on
tables he goes
so what do you think about all this and
he looks at him
and he's like me so he he literally
talks to the wake staff
the elevator people i mean everywhere we
went he was always talking to the people
who
who themselves thought shouldn't be in
front of anything
he remembers the farmer's face he saw in
iowa and
the farmer who he met backstage and he
remembers the auto worker in michigan
and
he remembers them and he's taken i think
those faces with him to washington
and has not allowed him to sink into the
washington swamp like unfortunately a
lot of republicans do
and he has for somebody who's been
incredibly successful in business
this unique ability to connect with the
ordinary man and woman
he's just a really good guy who loves
this country and i think just seeing how
the reporting of who he
is was so wrong was just really jarring
you have folks who have leaked for
whatever purposes they do
and create this image that it just is no
bearing in truth
and it's quite interesting too because a
lot of people that now
you know kind of come against him
publicly
i saw many of those same people in his
office quite often
people ask me all the time why does he
why does he tweet and it takes
everything so personal and i said well
because it is personal when people
you've known your whole life
who know your heart who know you're not
racist or sexist or misogynist are now
on the airwaves trying to poison people
who don't know you
that is personal and it should be
personal
i researched i went way back and i found
that
30 years prior mr trump at the time was
speaking about all of the issues that
were still relevant
well this is like my second bible and
you can see how it's
all marked and annotated and because
i was going uh all over virginia
and even debating at people who were
cruising for somebody else and they
would say well trump said this or trump
said that well all of the answers were
here
and so all i had to do was turn to this
say no you're wrong
i started virginia women for trump right
here in my living room with 22
very enthusiastic women and it grew from
there
we're out there we're engaging with
everyone that we meet practically he
really cares not just
you know for this country he cares for
others
other countries around especially for a
christian persecuted as
me a daughter of coming from um iraq
baghdad the christians were persecuting
all four decades
back in 2016 when i first attended one
of his rallies
i was very lucky to be at the very close
to the studio
and i had a made-up sign says iraqi
christians voted for trump to win
so as he arrives i followed up and
opened it up
and as through his speech he pointed at
me
and mentioned that we're going to do
better for the country we're going to
restore law and order
and make sure we will protect the
christians there
that's where he immediately gave us a
big hope
and i touched my heart and i felt that
i'm talking to
the person speaks out of his heart doing
this because
you know for the next generation my
children life my
grandchildren and you know their
children some american people they say
oh america never greek
i mean i think that because they never
been outside of the country
so they don't know sometimes when we
travel around the world we come back and
we want to kiss the crowd because we say
oh my god thanks god we are back even
though i didn't born here
but i i always feel i'm american
as the bus traveled through pennsylvania
i stopped by my favorite city
philadelphia
these are the halls where imperfect men
first declared the words that
toppled empires and ancient ideologies
people could rule themselves
self-government
was born here this
is the birthplace of america
it just so happens to be my birthplace
here we are in kensington allegheny down
in philadelphia this
is the house that i was born to stayed
here at 12
5 found me with a very rough situation
when i was five the police came in
separated
my mother and my two sisters and myself
from this house and then we never came
back we never saw our dad again after
that night
we were just kind of living on the
streets and my sisters found a sign on
the
side here that said sunday mornings free
dunkin donuts and orange juice
so we would come here probably for uh
several months in a row never with our
mom
just with my sisters while we were here
a gentleman noticed us
and noticed that we didn't dress well
and that we didn't have
any adult with us and uh took it upon
himself to find out our situation
and one day he he walked along the
streets
to find out what house we were
living in basically an abandoned house
and that's when he was
discovered us and took us to uh this
orphanage he was doing a
a project with
growing up i never dreamed i'd be where
i am today
a beautiful wife kids of my own and now
working in the film industry making
movies but isn't that what we are
fighting for
where a regular joe like me and rise up
out of a place like this
isn't that america
we're back donald trump and robert
kiyosaki define rich
develop rich is a state of mind more
than anything else if you feel you're
rich and if you're happy and
you have a wonderful family you're rich
and this doesn't just have to do with
money
he wants every person in this country
to have the chance of the american dream
and everyone who comes to this country
they work hard that's what he wants he
wants opportunity for everyone
he always loved america because america
he felt
gave him this great opportunity and it
was a place where people could
move from queens to manhattan uh miami
and
kansas can come to dc you can you can
live your dreams
and he realized that my dad was so happy
and proud when he was able to
uh get my mom a house like in the
suburbs and a front lawn
you know and it's things like that that
you know you understand the value of
hard work and be able to provide for
your family
to be able to live your american dream
having that equality of opportunity
not necessarily a result but you have
the chance i became the first
black woman to represent a republican
presidential campaign winning
presidential campaign
in united states history which is huge
i'm a black single mother
coming from poverty
having nothing or no one
no support system no connections and no
pedigree
and he gave me the opportunity of a
lifetime
only a fraction of people will ever get
to work for the president of the united
states
and i became one of them and that is the
donald trump that i know
have we been so conditioned to believe
the worst about people
have we lost the ability to recognize a
good thing
when it's staring us right in the face
there's sort of the public persona of
who donald trump
is who's this you know brash celebrity
businessman that we've all seen in you
know our homes for the last two decades
but there's this side of him that is
this incredibly
calm sort of father-like but deeply
serious man
who cares about the american people i
believe i'm portrayed in a rougher sense
than the actual product and i hope
that's true because i hope the actual
product is
a lot more mellow than the portrayal
he's just raw
he's real he's going to tell you what he
thinks when he thinks it and if he
changes his mind he'll tell you that too
normal political motivators did not
apply to him people looking for status
fame power money he had all of that he
sacrificed so much of it
to do this job we love our
slightly flawed candidate
because we're all slightly no matter
what he says it could be the greatest
thing in the world
but there are so many people out there
and it's sad because
if they got on board and really just for
took a breath and said well let me just
actually
listen for one moment and see what's
really here instead of just having a
prejudgment about somebody
and then just in their mind making it up
you know it's
it would be a lot easier for them and i
bet that they would find that they
really enjoy the president and they
have really benefited from a lot of what
he's done but
there are some you'll never convinced
nobody made any effort
sorry let me i did thank you so much
thank you darling
i'll remember it really means a lot to
me it really does that you take that
and all my son loved this country very
very much
and he gave his life painfully never
cried out in pain or anything like that
asked that his men be taken care of and
and what rank was he in he was a staff
sergeant
not a general not anything like that
just a staff sergeant a platoon sergeant
now again we have a man of the people
most
unlikely man of the people from you know
new york city
um very very successful but yet
in the best way a man of the people who
himself had lived the american dream and
who now just wants to
make sure everyone else has the same
shot
i want to thank you guys all for coming
i especially want to thank our guests
for coming in and that lovely pink truck
that everybody's gonna see
thank you all for joining us i have five
girls okay
talk about women for trump i think i
should i think i should have daughters
for trump bus at this point and alyssa
is here and she's
our number three right she's very
excited to be away from the sisters
and i wanted her to be able to meet the
great people of wisconsin
because it's important for her to know
and understand that
the heart of america is about people who
love this country
america is not about violence america is
not about hatred
america is not about division it is
about freedom
and love and patriotism
and you all embrace that every day of
what you're doing
talking about socialism 14 000
kids who came like me in this country
without parents
and we were provided an opportunity
this is what makes our country great i
was in florida last week with the
president for a round table with vanessa
and cuban leaders
and i met um some workers that were that
were nearby
and they were talking to me about their
concern of seeing
people tearing down the violence and
seeing people tearing down these statues
in the streets
like ali this is how it started in
venezuela this is how it started in cuba
they're like people championing these
policies promising you things that they
can't deliver on
promising this government's gonna fix
everything for you and then taking
control of the people
they're empty promises they weren't
delivered on and they destroyed
countries economies cultures and we
can't let that happen here
this behavior that started with riots
and you know tearing down
vandalizing businesses
statues all the government building this
is the beginning that we've seen back
home
this is the beginning to destroy the
nations it's gonna get worse
and worse if we're not gonna stop it now
you know that's a history right there
and now they trying to destroying it
freedom is just so fragile and
it really can change in a whim
a woman called tara durant took her
young daughter on erin's downtown
as the two tried to drive home a mob
surrounded their vehicle and blocked it
from moving several people
jumped on durant's car and screamed
obscenities at her child
i'd taken my daughter to home depot we
were doing um
a little renovation project we had a
really good time and we were coming back
i realized i've come to a protest and
these protesters were occupying this
intersection
all around it was probably close to 30.
they started to swarm around me
and they started to swear at me they
started to
you know you do affordably offensive
gestures and
that's when i called 9-1-1 they're on my
car all right they're on my car right
now so we would suggest you slowly drive
through the area don't hit anyone with
your vehicle
i cannot get out of here okay patient go
i'll let the officers know okay
are you serious we can't do anything now
the city told us that this is a
sanctioned event get out of my car
you know this is gonna get dangerous i
got a case here yes ma'am it was just
that you call it city hall to let them
know about your frustrations
this is getting scary as i'm getting
more upset so
two protesters jumped onto
they're on my hood they're on my car if
i
proceed slowly they're going to attack
me they're going to attack my car
if i go fast and use dangerous force i'm
going to hurt or kill someone
and i got a little girl in the car
crying are you kidding me she was afraid
that they were gonna get into
our car they were gonna hurt me or kill
me a motorcyclist came
up and he all of a sudden the people's
kind of
parted and he's gesturing at me
horrifically just saying
get the f out of here get the f out of
here and i stared at him i thought did
he just save me or
what happened you can't be threatened
and assaulted or battered
and say call city hall that's not
civilized society that's not
our country
my father was very successful i mean he
came from nothing and built these
businesses
and owned his house and he was going
somewhere
all of a sudden when castro came into
power you can see disintegration
destruction division happen in a country
so fast
it was a story of starting their lives
over again in this great country that
embraced them that really took them in
and my father always says you know he
left cuba with just an apple in his
pocket
and leaving everything just think about
this you leave
everything behind no matter how many
times i hear that story i always get
emotional like when my mom told that
cpac like she has told me the story so
many times and when i was a kid like i
didn't really know what it meant like i
was kind of like oh well
it's like freedom but now i realize like
how important that is to us
and when she told it at cpac actually um
recently um i started crying and
everyone looked over at me and i was
just like
because i just it's so terrible
what happened to him and i know every
time he tries to tell us like he gets
emotional he can't even tell the story
it's that bad and that's how precious
our freedom is
it's it's so important that if we lose
it
we lose so much more than just our
freedom
it's a choice between two visions of
america
and two different visions on how your
life
would either be more in the hands of the
government or more in the hands of you
the whole concept of self-governance
right where
you usually have a monarchy or a
dictator the whole idea of america 250
years ago was that
that doesn't work as well as a
government structure where we
elect our own representatives and they
represent the people
not the institutions and i think that
got lost
along the way and i think that this
president represents the people
not the establishment not the
institutions not the lobby
not a political party he represents the
people
no one could have predicted the chaos
that would ensue
with the trump candidacy i mean the
level of vitriol
and hate and now even violence i knew
that it would get pretty bad because
when you take on the establishment
regardless of the party there's there's
going to be some problems people don't
just give up power
or control of a 20 trillion dollar piggy
bank it's just not easy
it's a very slender minority of hateful
marxists
who are trying to rip everything down
and they really intimidate people
into silence if you're in the creative
community and you want to be on broadway
or in hollywood and
you're a christian or you love america
or you want to put your flag out i mean
these basic things
um they will persecute you they will
harm you
and the thing about good and decent
people is they tend to be quiet
because they tend to be tolerant and
what they need to understand is it's
good to be tolerant that's a virtue
but it's not a virtue when it turns into
the
destruction of what is good well i want
to thank everybody i will not forget
what i heard today
it uh it's very moving it's a very tough
situation and
we've made a lot of progress as you
probably have seen and you know
and i have a feeling you won't be
disappointed i've watched
him in just about every situation
circumstance from
fundraisers to dinners to on the golf
course to with family to casual time
you begin to know the character of a
person you begin to know the patterns of
a person
he's got an inner strength and an inner
core and he's got a love for this
country
and a love for people i had a guy say to
me today it was great he was like yeah
god what trump's doing is amazing that
guy he is made of steel his backbone is
amazing
i just wish he could be a little more
polite and i was like
when they're ripping apart your country
and trying to turn it into a communist
nightmare you're probably gonna be in a
little bit of a bad mood
probably gonna fight hard and maybe a
little bit dirty
you know uh when they're ripping down
everything that this country stands for
i'm glad we have a president that's
kicking dirt back in their face
i sincerely believe that when history
looks back on this president
the story will be told that no one
no president has done more for more
people
and for our country than this one has
right now at this time
wow we're not going to get anything out
here
don't get me wrong obviously i chose to
participate and i
love and appreciate what you guys are
doing
but are we going to convince anyone
differently it's like we're in such a
strange
time right now yeah that
are people open to hearing the real
story
and i hope they are you know and but i
say all the time i'm like if people knew
him the way
i feel like i know him we wouldn't even
have to be working so hard to tell this
story
when the president finally arrived he
mentioned he didn't have a lot of time
you could tell something was definitely
on his mind
despite this i watched him pull himself
into the moment
he gave us his attention as if we were
the only people in the room
go to the night of the election it's
like 2 30 or so
in the morning the moment came when you
went from trying to win an election
and then you won and realized you became
the president of the united states
if you just share that moment i know
laura was there for that moment also
so the night of the election was
certainly we have to say one of the most
exciting times for everybody
because nobody's ever seen worldwide i
have friends that said they've never
seen anything like it i know that some
of the big sports networks said it was
the most exciting
evening they've ever seen so you've had
super bowls and you've had
some of the biggest events ever and this
was probably the most exciting
and that was a special night you have
the family around and all of a sudden
they announced it was two o'clock
in the morning or so although i think we
knew the result long before that they
didn't want to call it they just refused
to call pennsylvania they should have
called pennsylvania long before
but uh we knew that it was uh pretty
much over
at about ten o'clock but all of a sudden
it's two o'clock
and we're realizing what happened and
being with the family was just something
very special because it's such an
important
thing and and i'm not even saying
important for us
because i don't think any of us view it
that way it's important for our country
the country needs help
it's needed help for a long time and
when you see what's going on now i think
maybe even more so in a sense it was
it was fomenting and uh it was it was
very bad the
ideology the the others ideology
but now it's all come out they're saying
this is really what we want
and it's really a sick ideology it's
very dangerous and
and very bad you look at venezuela you
look at cuba you look at so many other
places where they have something very
similar and what's happened is we've
made such great strides
but we have to really get this
additional four years
or the first four years won't mean quite
as much
and maybe won't mean much at all frankly
so we have to get this this next four
years it's got a seed just like a tree
you can't just put it there and let it
grow it has to seed
and i think it will have tremendous
spirit tremendous spirit
we've made a lot of progress other than
the plague coming
in from china we had the greatest
numbers in the history of our country
and now we're building them back again
and i think next year we're going to be
stronger than ever before that's what's
happening those are the numbers those
are very good at numbers those are the
numbers that are coming in
we're going to have a year next year
that's even better than last year and
last year was the greatest year this
country's ever had economically
family is so important to yourself it's
been really
a privilege for us to spend time with
your family
and it seems like with all the other
chaos in there in the country in the
world right now
why is family so important to you so
having family and having people that you
can really
love and trust and all of the things
that go along with the word family
is very important it grounds you
it makes you realize a lot of things
that you wouldn't
realize otherwise when you see
children growing up without a good
family structure you see the result is
is percentage-wise just a tiny
percentage of
what it would be if you had the family
structure so having family around
is number one it makes a nice life it
makes a much more comfortable life in so
many ways but
it's really very important oftentimes
the media presents
uh you as somebody that doesn't support
women yet that couldn't be
further from the truth even from the
days when you
built trump tower you've always put
people in places not based on what they
look like
but based on their performance and based
on what they bring to the table
and i think it's incredible that you
have within your campaign
over 50 women that you have so many
strong women around you in the
administration
so i've always felt a great
affection and respect for women and
it's always been there from day one i
don't know i guess you can develop that
maybe you can't
but with me it was always there and
whether it was in business or politics
or
anything else women have played a very
very big role
uh the level of genius is unbelievable
frankly
and it's been an honor to have so many
uh winners because they're real winners
winners with me i couldn't have won
without women but they helped me get
there
they helped me get there and they're
really just i love working with women
i love working with women i really
appreciate your time sir
it means a lot to us so i have to get a
because of change i knew it okay
what i'm personally fighting for is a
future
where my kids get to grow up in the same
america that i did
i think back to my childhood and it's
just the greatest memories in the world
i remember
being so proud to be an american i
remember standing up a little taller and
prouder with my hand over my heart when
i said the pledge of allegiance because
i loved
this country and i knew how fortunate i
was to grow up in this country when i
think about
my children growing up i want to know
that they feel that way too that they
get to live
in this great country where there are
boundless opportunities where there
are freedoms unlike any other country in
the world
nowhere in the entire world in the
history of the world
has there ever been a country like
america where anyone can succeed
one of the most essential fundamental
elements of our society the freedom
to live the life that you want to live
you might live a very different life
than i live you might think differently
than i do
but america is big enough to take it
this is the country that i would leave
behind
for my my children and my grandchildren
i only wish that america could know and
see
and understand and truly adore
this president the way i and so many
others on his staff do
people are never going to see his heart
because if they did
i think the media is just not going to
let that happen in this country which is
really unfortunate
but at the heart of it he's such a good
man
and he really cares about this country
people really thought about that
about how he gave up what anybody would
consider an
incredibly successful life and career to
be treated the way he is treated every
day
they might actually get a little glimpse
into what the heart of donald trump
actually looks like
i think as a country we're fighting to
maintain
the america we've always known because
in many respects
there are people out there that want to
fundamentally change this country they
want to transform it they want
us to have a country that would put
socialism forward and
have more government involved in your
life controlling most things that you do
and that's a really scary prospect
under those circumstances we couldn't
thrive in america like we always have
people wouldn't have their chance at the
american dream so
we will be fighting every single step of
the way
because really nothing is more important
good evening america
i'm lara trump daughter of bob and linda
unesco
sister to kyle mother to luke and
carolina
and the daughter-in-law of our 45th
president
so
you
i love hearing real people's stories
hearing what motivates them
what inspires them
in this day and age we have access to
more information about people
than ever before we peer into these
little windows
and think we know people clinically
narcissistic
even people we've never actually met you
can tell this is not a person that
understands any issue deeply
we feel so connected
so informed technology has definitely
opened new parts of the human experience
but what's been closed off as a result
we see in part
we hear in part i know words i have the
best words
opinions are quickly formed not that
there was any question but but this is
pretty clear then confirmed by random
humans we've also never met
sergeant is a bigot a racist and racist
person
we think we know people uh is it balance
problems is there some weakness there
but do we really the american people by
a fluke
elected in imbecilic con man the lack of
humility from donald trump he might
order a nuclear weapons strike
this might seem like such a basic
question
but how do we really know someone
come on here i didn't even know that
there was a human being named eric trump
truth be told don't tell my husband that
while promoting my last film i met laura
trump
as she shared her story i was amazed as
an american
i've heard more about the british royals
than our current first family
crazy and is it okay to say i'm
surprised she was so
normal well as normal as you can be
while
walking the dogs and feeding the kids in
between filming segments for the news
networks
okay here we go guys good evening
everybody and
welcome to the right view i'm laura
trump senior advisor to
president trump's reelection campaign
laura has since become my friend
she's the trump i know
is everybody ready to eat are you hungry
luke
yeah would you like to eat lunch yeah
okay who am i
i never in a million years would have
imagined that i would be
in this role or be part of anything like
this
what happened ladies and gentlemen oh
thank you
broccoli so it was very polite
say thank you you're very welcome luke
i was born and raised in wilmington
north carolina
same house i came home from the hospital
to my parents
still live in today i went to high
school there i went to college at nc
state
in raleigh and then i expected like i
got out of college and oh there would be
a job waiting for me
and that did not end up being the case
um
so i it's so long
it's dirty i know it's okay um so i
ended up
waiting tables i was a bartender i was a
part-time personal trainer
for about two years after college i got
to a point where
i knew that there was something more
that i wanted to do or there had to be
something else out there
so i decided one night on a whim to
apply to culinary school in new york
city so i found my apartment and my
roommates
on craigslist which my parents
immediately thought well she's
definitely going to be dead when she
moves there
if it's not bad enough i was fully gonna
have like a movie night
at home i was gonna relax and my
roommate happened to have a friend in
town
and she begged me to go out with them
and i was not gonna go out that night
we went out one thing led to another and
i saw
this really tall guy the tallest guy for
sure
in the the place we were this this club
downtown in manhattan
and i thought to myself well tall guy
blonde
was into that and i was like okay and we
hung out that whole night we had a great
time
and when we left that night somebody
that was with our group of friends said
something like well you know who that
was
you were hanging out with all night and
i was like no and they said well that's
donald trump's son i was like what first
of all i
i knew who donald trump was i think i
knew about ivanka because i got like
teen magazine or something back in the
day and i'm pretty sure she was in that
i didn't know about don jr eric's
brother
certainly didn't know about eric and i
was like okay i didn't even know donald
trump had
a son but that's that's fine never
really figured i would see him again
and we got married on november 8 2014
which if you recall in 2016 november 8th
was election day
so that was our nice anniversary treat
i had gone down to north carolina to a
rally
in my hometown of wilmington with my
father-in-law
he did what donald trump always does he
asks people's opinions of things you
know i was from the state and that was
my hometown and blah blah blah
so he asked me about the way things were
being run one thing led to another and i
i gave him my thoughts about things and
he kind of like sat back and looked at
me and i was like oh no
either i said something really right or
really wrong and he was like you know
what
i'm going to put you in charge of
winning north carolina could you do that
for me could you win north carolina
i mean i had no idea about anything
politics-wise i had no experience in any
of this
but of course i was there in the moment
with my father-in-law and i was like
yes of course i could win you in the
state of north carolina
so as soon as i got outside i called my
husband and i was like i don't really
know what just happened but i think your
dad
put me in charge of winning the state of
north carolina um
and important state very important and i
had taken that day off of work it was
like a tuesday or something and i'd
taken it off of work
so i had to go back to work the next day
and i remember i went in
and i talked to my executive producer
and i was like um i'm pretty sure i'm
gonna need to take a leave of absence
for
about three and a half months oh no what
happened ma'am
you want some more water come on luke
let's go this way and now that people
are out golfing
the trick is to not get hit by golf
balls while we're out here too
or get in anyone's way yes obviously an
important
thing too this is generally fun when
everyone's cooperative
i mean a lot of the reason that i work
out is to stay sane
it's the one time of the day that i'm
sort of by myself don't have to deal
with anyone or anything else usually
the best part out here is that they all
know like i'm the crazy lady with the
dogs
and the kid or kids come on luke
my mom comes up all the time hey
my mom comes up all the time to help me
with the kids um to stay with them if
i'm
out of town like over a weekend or
something yeah well i didn't have kids
in 2016. i have two now
i think about all the time the fact that
i'm not gonna be able to see my kids
that much for
several months in a row i'm sure and
it's a temporary thing but at this age
kids are changing growing so much
now every time i facetime my son he
cries
of course which never makes you feel
good this glimpse into the trump world
made me curious how many more of these
stories
are there she invited the crew to tag
along
and find out
as a member of the first family you
don't just get in the car and go
but i have to admit riding with the
secret service was pretty cool
are you going to get on the other side
so it feels always very good to get back
excited to be here and i come i'm back
like once a week now once
twice a week sometimes so yeah i saw him
briefly yesterday did you see us
hi
every time luke
hey can you say hi to mom
hi ben hi charlie
oh there's benjamin you're very handsome
hey luke
come here and give me a kiss i'll talk
to you later i love you
that was a better display
recently when i've been calling him he's
just been like hysterical like just
burst into tears and lays down on the
floor and cries so
that was a better uh better show
i got a couple of love use
i don't have a key to get in here
thank you sir how are you i just had a
very uh nice breakthrough with luke when
i
called normally he's been like freaking
out just hysterically crying right
and he just he responded to me and oh
hitting his face
oh
hello what did we have i have that off
that calendar we were working on yeah
oh i was going to ask you about that
where is it where is it right now let's
go to fox first
because then we can yeah then we can
make it and it's such a big issue
they're all doing reopening schools
mercedes reputation i think preceded her
she has now worked in two different
white houses
and she was at the white house before
coming over to the campaign
raising the kids is my top priority one
of the biggest stresses i have in my
life is making sure
i'm able to be there for my children and
not miss out
in their lives because it goes by so
fast
i mean matt the girls everyone has been
so supportive of
allowing me to work for this president
and now work for the campaign
well basically you just try to get uh
more queens
okay i don't know if you can cancel that
one raise my children
i think they're going to try to do the
women bus tours every week almost i'm
like literally like i looked at laura
and i was like okay how are we going to
do this okay
so i'll just take a kid a kid a trip i
think maybe
i'm excited to just go out and see
another state because
i don't really get i've never seen
wisconsin it's going to be interesting
so yeah i'm just i'm excited freedom and
spreading
that message is what i feel called to do
every day
mercy fox news is calling okay all right
why are the kids playing poker
because your mother taught them how to
play poker
this is the path to victory to get
independent and moderate voters on the
fence in
michigan pennsylvania and wisconsin
let's welcome back to the show
trump 2020 senior advisor mercedes it's
always great to have you back on
mercedes what are the far left policies
the president is talking about here
look i think you're seeing for example
many of these liberal media outlets
just criticizing and attacking the
president
for any move that he makes well when you
look at the president's policies
they're common sense policies that
mainstream americans can agree with
of the fakest rumors of all rumors the
president didn't have women working for
him and didn't like strong women do
anything
i mean i believe the president was the
first one to ever hire a woman to build
a building in new york
and when i showed up at trump tower i
met a whole bunch of powerful women
and the women within the family
including the president's wife
people think that melania is just
walking around beautiful what she is
i had actually met melania and worked
with her prior to even knowing the
president
she was very strong business wise knew
exactly what she wanted
and then as as i met laura and as i met
ivanka and as i met other
you know women in the um around the
trump organization
i found out that a lot of women were
what makes this place tick
every week we get some press inquiries
you guys have no women on your campaign
or
um or women are never promoted or women
are never senior staff
there's always something somewhere along
the way
that the president hates women and
doesn't value them
it's just so not true we're not only
like a
majority senior staff female we're
pretty much like a majority female staff
overall being a working mom and and
having the role that i do on this
campaign i think just speaks volumes to
how
good of a man the president is how good
of a family he has
i mean they empower me so much
not only to succeed at reelecting the
president or
run my department or be the best
operative that it can be but they also
empower me to be the best
working mom that i can be i am like one
of the only not moms on the campaign but
at one point we had like two babies
in the office like a month after and
they just like stop in and
i like well you know we'd hang out with
kaylee or hannah's baby if they had a
big meeting
um but that's just that's a lot that
happens here and they really believe
like women can take charge can have a
seat at the table
you want to create an environment that
women do feel that they have a voice
they have something to say what you said
about our campaign now almost 60
women i think it's important to note
that wasn't
because we wanted so many women this is
because we hire the best people for the
job it happened to be women
and there are so many women you never
get this narrative out there
from the mainstream media but so many
women that want to be a part of the
president's campaign that want to be a
part of this
they tried to stop us from telling that
story in 2016 and that's why i got out
on the road with a bus full of women and
said there are women that support
donald trump well by the way talk about
another strong woman ronna hi guys how
are you
sorry i just popped in for our meetings
right now the chair of
the republican national committee former
stay-home mom
only the president would say let's take
that stay-home mom and have her run the
party
what a smart guy well by the way but
this is another example i mean i didn't
even
yeah it wasn't even like in my my sphere
but
literally you have a woman in charge of
the republican party
under president donald trump it's always
ironic that media
trying to sell a narrative that's not
true because they just say it enough
times and
and the fact they don't say they're
strong women and women opinions of the
trump administration i mean you have a
lot of history with women kellyanne the
first
campaign manager you had sarah sanders
who was the first press secretary
with children i'm only the second woman
in history
to run there and see i mean he really
has made a lot of history
and when i see what what laura's done
when i say what you've done rana you
know in terms of i know your kids pretty
well at this point and
um i can tell you it's not easy i can
tell you my wife has a substantially
harder job than i might run a big
company and i might be very involved
with the campaign but
you know you really do do a phenomenal
job with kids and she is present and she
will wake them up every single morning
and she will be the first one
changing their diapers and she will feed
them and she will take care of them and
she will organize all their activities
and then she will be on the radio and
the kids will
be running up to her literally as you
know she's on with some host and she'll
play it off and she does it with
glamour and grace and and beauty and
just a funny story about that we were
doing a conference call the other day
and i was like who's taking a bath
oh that was hilarious i was giving
carolina a bath brad was like is someone
in the bathtub we were on a zoom call
and i left my phone on the counter so i
couldn't mute it
i didn't know everybody i have to say
though
i mean brad you all have been very
supportive of the moms here at the
campaign the mega moms
you know that i've got five kids and
it's you didn't stop from hiring me
and how many women were pregnant all at
the same time it was like between
hannah and you and hayley at the time
and i think that there was a lot of
support that we get because i think you
all value
what we're able to continue i think it
makes you stronger i mean i think it
makes it makes you more relevant to
understand as well like
if we can't get moms what are we doing
this for right and so that's what we're
fighting you know we're fighting for
every
american family so we should have
american families here
i love the women of trump because
they're such strong and powerful
and opinionated women
the positive message is not getting out
to the public which is why we're doing
what we're doing
we do these tours to bypass the media to
go directly to local and regional
and talk about the accomplishment to the
president
it seemed odd to be the one telling the
story about the women in trump's orbit
why me was no one else willing to
does it underscore the problem one
sentence
and you don't play the rest it's very
misleading to the public
mr trump talks about the policies of the
middle east after the quote you just
play from the rally
i actually feel like i have three
different lives
i have my life of work
i have my life of family
and then i have my life we just got back
from a bus tour which we're going to be
having probably one every other week
if not every week i love it and it's fun
when we're doing it
it's just craziness all the time
and it's just sensory overload for me
i have this routine and it's probably
completely
opposite of anybody else i come home i
fall out on my bed for about 30 minutes
just to
decompress the events the the meetings
and all the engagements because i know
i only have about 30 minutes before the
phone's gonna start ringing or the
emails are gonna come in
so is the round table at the church oh
no we're leaving to go to the round
table got it okay
i'm i'm ready i've been on the plane but
also
like my brother-in-law don has been on
the plane as well and we are not sitting
together
and so i can hear these people saying
things about my brother-in-law and it's
very hard
because my reaction my initial reaction
is that
i want to get up and i want to get in
their face and say like listen you've
got this wrong like we're good people
and what everything you've heard is not
true out there
but i can't do that i mean sadly if i
did something like that i would seem i
would be a crazy person
and it would be just a ton of negative
coverage
but it's very hard i think it's really
hard for anybody to hear
information that they know is false and
especially about people
who you love and care about and you know
really fight so hard every single day
you know to to hear the media spread
lies about you it's it's hard it's very
frustrating
like there are people in my grade who
will literally like nudge me and be like
i love trump because they know my
parents and it's kind of sad because
like now even kids are afraid to say
like
that they like trump because people will
shame you people will
and it's like it's kind of sad because
it's hard to express who you
are when everybody just if you don't
think the same way as you they don't
accept you should we turn up the volume
to see what they're saying
yeah hello everyone i hope you all had
an enjoyable weekend
i have some brief announcements for you
today
violence looting anarchy are not to be
tolerated
chris cuomo saying show me where it says
protesters are supposed to be peaceful
i'll give you an idea chris it's the
constitution
like i was just walking in watching cnn
as they lauded the quote
rallies in the streets are you saying
the president got to let me finish jen
this isn't a cable news segment i'm
answering your question right now from
the white house podium
those people should be jailed the people
you just mentioned i never said that
those are your words not mine but
perhaps you should look into it and give
me some answers
oh that's a very nice tie by the way
thank you very much did anyone take it
upon themselves to
pose any questions about michael flynn
unmasking the president obama's
spokesperson
oh not a single journalist has posed
that question okay
does president trump believe that it was
a good thing
that the south lost the civil war say
what
and i just want to leave you with a
quote from martin luther king jr that we
must learn to live together as brothers
or we will perish together as fools
thank
i you know if these are the ones that
she recommended something something
is daddy making you oh my gosh that's it
looks terrible i'm telling you
do you have something other than the
silver spoon i like that spoon that was
given as a gift to us
that doesn't look good what's daddy
making you eat
i've loved politics from kindergarten
on it was just something that was innate
i remember in college intern for
congressman adam putnam um on the hill
i interned in the white house actually
um for president george w
bush and i was in the office of media
affairs and i remember distinctly the
day i got to go to a white house press
briefing and i got to watch dana perrino
do a briefing and i was standing off to
the corner and i remember looking at
carl cameron who was the fox
correspondent asking her questions and
i would have never guessed that i don't
know 10 years later so that i would be
the one behind the podium
my mom raised three kids and i always
you know respected that
she you know worked so hard to
raise us and i guess i never truly
appreciated it
until i had a child of my own being a
mom is
truly the most challenging but the most
exciting job in the world
i think realizing just how much it
entailed
just really made me respect moms in
general and my mom for sure
my mom traveled the country with me with
blake and while she was out all day
blake and i kind of just stayed in the
hotel room a lot of times
a lot of the places it was really cold
it was snowing outside
so um we got to bond and it was
beautiful it was an experience that
i'll never forget shawn and i we didn't
really take parenting classes
we didn't read books well you read part
of a book
so when she came we were like just
figuring it out on the fly
hey pee it's okay
i know she wants more food it's all gone
there ain't any more food you can yeah
you want me to do that when my food's
over too yeah maybe just a
little one good job
maybe diaper time i don't know well we
got stuff up there too
say bye-bye
it sunk in i was going to go take this
new role and
i mean i remember just holding blake
actually right there and i just started
crying and like literally my tears were
like
falling on her because i was so sad
thinking about her not being with me all
the time
and then all of a sudden she lit up with
what i think was her very first smile
and it was just like
her way of saying go do this mommy and
god's way of saying i want you to do it
so that's the first secretary are you
okay
yeah it was my phone oh okay so this is
not blank
programs for me to be a part of which
was i worked with children's cancer
groups which is really important to me
at the various hospitals in san
francisco
like ucsf and it was a really rewarding
experience kimberly guilfoyle i mean
her background is so so impressive as a
prosecutor
she started dating my brother-in-law don
and it was just a natural fit for her to
come over to the campaign
we were on a alligator uh hunt one time
oh my goodness
and then uh one of our friends dared
dawn to go in and swim with the
gators so of course he did it i mean i
was like what is going on here i was i'm
gonna have to dive in and like get him
out of there and whatever
gone so tough like his dad too i mean
look every day is an adventure
when you think about it they were trying
to put him in jail and can you imagine
you come home and it says
uh don jr is guilty of treason
punishable by
death i was like well let's make tonight
a good night because apparently
according to cnn
there he is singing your praises
come sit for a second say hi rap one of
the things i think that is so important
when people really see and they resonate
they understand and feel a little bit
closer to the president because they get
to meet don
interact with them very personable and
out there fighting
for his father and i think it shows you
look how much he loves his dad and his
family and willing to sacrifice against
incredible odds
with everybody coming after him and he's
really been besides his father
the you know biggest target and i want
to retire and let kimberly just fight
for me it's so much easier
she does such a better job anyway i just
know when to get out of the way
uh you know between honestly you know
just between
you know my mother my sister my
daughters kimberly you know the
your grandma the grandma they're all
very just you know
impressive women you know just you know
go-getters you know very alpha
uh you know and they just do it and so
uh it's awesome to see and my father's
really surrounded himself by
them his entire life 30 years before
other people were doing the same thing
because he sees competence
uh and he rewards it
president donald j racist is a person
who they bigot
and is in the white house his comments
about those women were racist
it seems to me like the president will
not be happy until there is not
one single female republican voter in
the country
he was lauded all over the world as one
of the greatest businessman
men of all times and then all of a
sudden he decides to run for president
and it switches and you have people
coming after you like i really don't
think any president has had to deal with
the media did the best that they could
to try and rebrand him because before
the 2016 campaign donald trump was a
beloved american icon
internationally known 100 name
recognition
hollywood star right and then all of a
sudden he's running as a republican and
he's
the enemy he's the devil he's a russian
spy i mean these are all the crazy
things
that came out after donald trump the
good news is
he had 40 years of a brand these same
people who are
trashing him on these news networks for
the same people that wanted to attend
parties with him
without derek zoolander male modeling
wouldn't be what it is today
excuse me where's the lobby down the
hall and to the left
thanks mr and mrs
donald trump
it's the donald oh my god
when you look at donald trump the man
who has a documented record out there
that
the entire 80s has been erased the
entire 90s
have been erased donald trump's history
was never brought up between the 80s and
90s with regards to race or women
or people would have to acknowledge the
fact that it was
donald trump who worked with jesse
jackson and there's video of jesse
jackson himself
praising donald trump for being a
builder of communities and a builder of
people praising donald trump for the
space
that he gave to black men to help them
get involved in
wall street i do want to express thanks
to you
donald trump for being with us tonight
he is a man that sees potential
he doesn't see race he doesn't see
gender he sees potential
he sees people he's humbled um that he's
given this job that so few in the
history of our country can say they've
had
he's enjoyable to be around and it's not
surprising because i think when you
watch his rallies
it's he's enjoyable to watch and i think
just to see behind the scenes
that he is the same person he is in
front of the cameras that he's just as
funny behind the scenes and
it's not the case i think with every
president where there's this scripted
image of who the person
is out here and then who he is behind
the doors of the oval office is a
complete mystery
this is the same person what do you want
to be
that's a good idea so you want your own
business
and you're going to make a lot of money
right but don't
run for politics after you leave he will
probably be
the only president to come out of office
with less money
than when he went in because he's not
doing this to write a tell-all book his
memoir
we all know donald trump already we've
always known him
the trump winery sits on the monticello
wine trail
just outside charlottesville virginia
carrie woolard manages the property
she offered to show us a round via the
scenic route
i don't think there's a lot of turnovers
there's a lot of exits
just never know there's a rest stop
right here
it's kind of fun up here yeah i'm sure
i've had great ambitions of being a
doctor which is what i wanted to do
since the time i was a little little kid
moved to charlottesville and worked at a
winery for what i thought was just going
to be a year
i was loving what i was doing in the
wine industry
and and here i am when trump purchased
the property it was in receivership so
it was
quite distressed this is their first
winery and
they needed a bit of help so they asked
some of the experts in virginia
who would you recommend who can help us
here to really bring this place back to
where
we know it can be and in doing so my
name came up a couple different times so
eric
um got my number actually called me at
work
uh to to which i told him that i really
couldn't talk to him while i was at work
but if he gave me his number i would
call him back
so later that evening i called him back
a couple days later i was on a plane to
new york to interview
and i i think like less than a week
later you know i had a cell phone in an
email and had given notice and
um was already you know starting to work
on the project here before i was even
officially
in an office there's women in the
company that
i look up to and have since i started
you know i've been here
eight years and even when i began there
are women
and that are that still work in the
corporate office who have been
with him for 20 years and 25 years and
they're
women who have accomplishments beyond
what most people would imagine
we ask that you would bestow upon our
president the wisdom
necessary to lead this great nation
the grace to unify us and the strength
to stand for what is honorable
and right in your sight i've been in his
life 19 years
i was in my office and they said to me
mr trump's on the line i was like yeah
yeah sure
i thought they were playing around with
me so they're like
paula mr trump's on the line so i get on
and sure enough his receptionist robin
answers and
picks up and said mr trump would like to
speak to you i hear this distinguished
voice that most people you know have had
some kind of
knowledge or some kind of you know have
heard about
so he said to me i've been watching you
on television he told me how he was
confirmed presbyterian
how his mother was a very godly woman
and
praying woman how he grew up
going to saturday and sunday school then
he would talk about
i went to see dr david jeremiah or how
his dad took him to dr billy graham
crusades and he loved selves loves dr
billy graham
he was really drawn to the passion
and the move of god and the spirit of
god so he said well when you're
when you're up here why don't you stop
by the office so i did and i thought
you know this will be a waiting line or
this way and he was just so
accommodating
and so this actually became very regular
in routine so whenever i was ever in new
york you'd say stop
by and i think well he's going to kick
me out of the office you know or
something and i'd stay there for
thinking five or ten minutes and i'd end
up sometimes being there for
hours and i'm like just a fly on the
wall and it was
it was quite fascinating to me how much
he had been formed by several things um
and
faith being one of them so we are
headed down into the barrel cave
between the oak and the wine and oh my
it smells
amazing when you come in here
come in here taste a little wine check
in on see how everything's aging and
go from there 2019 was a
great vintage virginia it's going to be
one of the banner vintages i think we've
had
it was only the second time that he had
visited the property so
i was a little bit nervous you know i
was still new to
the company and it's strange to say that
he's down to earth
but he is very down to earth and has
this ability to make you feel at ease
very quickly it was just uh
eric mr trump myself so just the three
of us
so we're going in and out of every
building getting in and out of the car
dozens of times and mr trump opened my
car door for me
every single time we stopped and got out
of the car
and it got so almost embarrassing that
at one point throughout the day
i actually let out a little bit of a
giggle like i think it was just a
nervousness and i was embarrassed
and i was like oh my gosh i'm so sorry
and you know and he looked at me and he
was just like absolutely not
like that is just what i do it's always
what i'm gonna do
we had a huge painting crew and he
wanted to meet them
and even further than just shaking their
hand and introducing himself
he actually stopped to ask me if it was
okay first
i think it's very clear that it is who
he is to the poor
without cameras without people looking
no one's around no one to impress so
that that's the
mr trump that i know
all right if we can't do anything on the
west wing obviously we could come over
here on the from the east wing
um like i i'm in the waiting area like
that i forgot the room it's officially
called
laura arranged for us to get a few words
from the president himself
turns out he's a pretty busy guy
while waiting for the boss i met a few
of the women who lead their departments
within the white house
starting with stephanie grisham this is
us in the oval office
mrs trump was filming a psa i felt like
there was a hair out of place so
i stopped everything and she thought it
was hilarious because i was trying to
fix her hair
and i love this picture because it's it
catches her she's
she laughs all the time she's got the
best sense of humor
i think it says a lot about both of you
and your relationship together
it's pretty cool i think so i got a call
from somebody saying
donald trump is coming to town would you
mind working
a rally because i had worked for romney
doing advanced work for him
and i kind of thought oh oh
it's donald trump and i love the
apprentice so this will be just fun to
watch
after seeing the energy in that room and
after seeing how he packed the room
that wasn't look again it was donald
trump that early
but the things he said and he was just
so authentic
and for me in my life
to see him be so authentic meant a lot
to me and the first time i met him
he he asked about me he asked about my
family
and there's there was no judgment and he
seemed genuinely interested
and so i called all the other candidates
after that and i said i'm i'm done
i'm gonna go work for him and here i am
after that we met up with kellyanne
conway
the most important role i'll ever have
is mom
and i've been blessed with four children
who are now teens and tweens
they have sacrificed mightily for mom's
job in the public eye
and i'm trying to do my very small part
to help improve the lives of people who
don't have voices and don't have choices
and they never felt like they mattered
or that somebody was giving them voice
and visibility
because typical political speak and
politicians
would promise them the sun moon and
stars and deliver very little
and that's just a way to get votes
donald trump rolled the dice he he
didn't need this job i mean the idea
that donald trump
became the president is truly remarkable
on many
levels for many reasons but to bring
that businessman's perspective
the problem solver the crisis manager
the person who
needs to have tangible results he's a
builder he can't just talk about
building he can't just
have a commission of architects talk
about what the building may look like no
you have to build
the building and all that that means so
that people can walk into it and work
and live and that's been such a
remarkable
refreshing aspect of this presidency
while we were there
kaylee texted and introduced us to
alyssa farah
who then gave us a tour of the
eisenhower building i know you've had
several roles on the hill and even
within the white house here itself
first time you met the president if you
remember that the first time that i met
the president
i was working for the vice president
mike pence
i was so nervous i he came into a
roosevelt room meeting that the vice
president was leading
and he turned to me and said hi smiley
i'm guarantee he does not remember that
to this day but i was smiling so wide
because i was just excited to see him
um but now i've got to spend quite a bit
of time with him it's
i i remember this every day as i walk on
a campus just to stop
say a quick prayer of thank you and
gratitude that i get to be there and
that i get to serve this particular
president
um he's a remarkable man the more time
you spend with him behind closed doors
the more you understand what makes him
such a strong leader for our nation
we also met with brooke rollins who's
been with the president
since his campaign i'm not sure quite
how it happened but every day
i along with all of my colleagues we
pinch ourselves
because we believe we have the greatest
job at the most important time
in our country's history and so to stand
alongside
this president at this point in time and
fighting for the very soul of america
is is a gift that defies any sort of
definition or explanation but one that
we
all understand uh is beyond anything
that we are
ourselves and part of something so much
bigger
we found out the president needs to push
our meeting back a bit
back to the waiting room i guess
i was tired and i think a lot of people
are tired of watching other countries
ripping off the united states this is a
great country
country's losing 200 billion dollars a
year when i build a building a lot of
the material has to come from china
because
well that's different right no it's
terrible because of the united states
david it's terrible i wish it weren't so
but they manipulate their currency and
they make it very very hard to buy
products
in this country and with good leadership
you could stop that immediately
my father-in-law got continually
frustrated i think by what he saw
happening in so many
cases across this country and he kept
saying like this isn't right this isn't
how it should be done
and i know people have talked to you
about whether or not you want to run
would you would you ever
i probably wouldn't but i do get tired
of seeing what's happening with this
country and if it got so bad
i would never want to rule it out
totally i think the
radicalism of the obama years
and the kind of tearing down america
really ripped at him
he begins to call me pastor in early
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those of us who are christians in a
ministry understand
that's quite a step that's quite a step
so that says quite a bit for him to ask
me to
break bread with him open the word with
him pray over him
pray for his family seek god calls me
over to the office and he said
i want you to pray i said about what he
said i'm thinking about running for
president this is 2011.
and i said okay he said i really need to
hear from god
and he said i've got to make a pretty
big decision he said paul can you bring
some people around to pray
so we did i brought about 20 people 20
pastors that i'm
very close to or new and we went there
to trump tower
we prayed for six hours he wasn't in
there the entire time but almost the
entire time
and it wasn't about can you know get
get people around me i want to know what
they have to say i want another opinion
not at all it was pure unadulterated
um seeking god what does god have to say
so the next morning he calls me over and
he said
paula what do you think god's saying i
mean i remember
and i'm not a real you know teary type
of girl at all
and i remember this tear coming down
barely i
said it's not the timing but i
knew that he was going to run and be
president
i knew it in 2011 and i said as
a friend as someone that
i care about little did i understand
what i was saying then
i said i hate to see
what you would go through i said but our
nation will need it
one of my favorite memories that i have
was
actually having dinner in the 21 club
in new york with mr trump and eric and
then governor mcauliffe who was the
governor of virginia who was you know
part of the
dnc with the clintons and so mr trump
was asking
tons of questions and expressing his
frustration and
i remember sort of sitting there in
fascination
and in awe of what i was able to be a
part of and listen to
and i should have had clued in that
night that
that's what was coming
so my father-in-law's birthday happens
to be flag day
june 14th and if you remember he
announced he was running
on june 16th so we all went to have
dinner with him at bedminster at the
the golf club for his birthday and it
was at that birthday dinner when
he really said to all of us this is this
is real
i i want to do this but i'll never
forget what else he said
because he said this isn't just about me
this is about our whole family and
there's no way that somebody runs for
president
and they don't drag everybody in so i
need to know from you
of course that you guys understand what
that means
and that everybody is on board and i
kind of think if any one of us had said
like
maybe we're not into this i don't know
necessarily we wouldn't have done it but
i think we could have had a conversation
about it nobody even hesitated we said
absolutely we're on board but i remember
he also said charlie get off
he also said now they're going to come
after us they're not going to make it
easy
there's going to be lies written about
us they're going to say all
everything they can politics is a nasty
business
but i think this is the right thing to
do wow was he right on that right
oh my gosh i get a phone call i was
in my kitchen in florida he goes up
paula what you doing you know how are
you and i said i'm great sir how are you
and he said i'm running for president
and you're going to oversee faith and i
thought
and with all due respect of course he
knew what he was doing but i thought i
certainly don't know what i'm doing
the american dream is dead
but if i get elected president i will
bring it back
bigger and better and stronger
than ever before and we will make
america great again thank you thank you
very much
everybody knew donald trump but then
when he came out
and started talking like we all talk and
saying the things that we were all
thinking and
and speaking about the things that were
sort of under the surface that no one
wanted to address but
they weren't right and we had to fix
them people i think for the first time
in a long time
had hope that things would change there
was something going on
and it was very reminiscent to me as a
tea party person when we started out
with 200 people at an event
and ended up with 34 000. it was like
that energy was back
and but this time we had a leader
which republican candidate has the best
chance of winning the general election
of the declared ones right now donald
trump
that was the moment that everyone said
was impossible according to the experts
the pundits the whole group of them
hillary clinton has a 100 chance of
winning over 60 percent of republicans
aren't going to vote for donald trump
if trump does win the party's nomination
he claims he won't stand a chance
against hillary clinton you have to
understand he cannot win
going into this night where do we stand
268 to 204
so clearly an advantage for secretary
clinton we have our first woman
president soon to be hillary clinton
elected president of the united states
but
the vote is sacred until the people
speak we don't celebrate
it was so late and nobody wanted to call
anything
i called eric and i said i need you to
come down to my office i need to show
you something
eric kind of leaned on the computer and
i'm sitting there and i go
look right there that's the moment the
data crossed the line
and eric was like you're serious and i
was like yeah
we won this was election day i said now
it's just a matter of time of
of waiting for it to all come in and for
everyone to believe it when it became
very evident that he was going to win
and he started quickly working on the
acceptance speech and
still hadn't heard from hillary clinton
and everybody was like well where's
hillary
the president is in the dining room
somewhere outside the kitchen staircase
camera exactly whereas i walk up to him
i said sir
i have the raw data we want you want sir
and he was like oh they called it yet
they called it and bannon's standing
next to me and kelly and they're like
they haven't called it yet on cnn or
asia i said i have the raw data
our team says you have won it's just a
matter of time now i would get ready to
go
but nobody had heard from her and and
everyone kept saying well look until she
calls and concedes
and says like you won we can't
officially
say like that that you won this election
my father-in-law said well we can't just
leave these people there these people
have been there for like 12
hours look at how close he is right now
he has 257
electoral votes he needs 13 more 270
to be elected president of the united
states and dana
he is getting incredibly incredibly
close jake
and the wall comes tumbling down i mean
this is this is truly the beginning of
the end for hillary clinton's campaign
associate press still won't call it
they're double checking their numbers if
you look at this again let's go
pennsylvania 97
hold on one second i want to go back to
general right now diana what are you
learning
you know well if i have wolf i have a
little bit of information but i just
want to be sure that
i have it right that's why i reported to
you so go back and talk to john
we were backstage as we were you know he
was preparing to go out
there and i'm so mad i actually went to
the bathroom
i know i went to the bathroom and i was
like i've got i've got to go just real
quick so i ran to the bathroom
and as i'm coming back everyone is like
huddled around him so i kind of like
squirmed my way through
i was like what's going on and my
husband said
it's hillary and i was like oh my gosh
and he was in the middle of a
conversation with her
and it was very cordial i mean they
they've known each other
for years i mean maybe 20 years
and he hung up the phone and we were all
just kind of there with like baited
breath like
well like what happened and he said well
it's official that's it let's go do it
decision desk has called this means that
donald trump
will be the 45th president of the united
states
winning the most unreal
surreal election we have ever seen
it is my high honor and distinct
privilege
to introduce to you the president-elect
of the united states of america donald
trump
thank you very much
sorry to keep you waiting complicated
business
complicated to get to that moment
to realize that it was it was real that
he had
won the presidency literally defying all
the odds out there
i mean there was just a moment of of
sort of shock for all of us because
although we felt it we've been even been
beaten into us
like i think so many people in this
country that there was no chance for
donald trump
now it's time for america to bind the
wounds
of division have to get together
to all republicans and democrats and
independents across this nation
i say it is time for us
to come together as one united people
we probably got home at like 4 30 in the
morning or something
didn't get much sleep and i mean we
couldn't sleep like how do you sleep
after that i pledge to every citizen of
our land
that i will be president for all
americans
and this is so important to me
i guess it was just surreal you are go
go go go go
constant like work and work and working
hard and fighting and fighting
and then you get to this moment and
we're sort of like okay now like
what do we do now now what
maybe he's dealing with china
i feel like ultimately the rule of law
needs to be followed by a president
and this president has shown a contempt
for the rule of law and seems to kind of
i think it's fairly obvious that he's
violated the constitution in a number of
ways
i think that president trump has
demeaned the office disgraced the office
of the president
i would say at least a weekly if not a
daily basis
the number of inaccurate unfounded
stories written either about me
my husband the trump organization
clearly the president when you look at
the media's approval rating which is
often very low it's
the american people recognizing that
there was a harvard study done of the
president's first hundred days in office
and they found that he got historic
negative coverage historic this is trump
world
everybody in it is a liar it's really
the beginning of the end
the beginning of the end he may be
feeling the walls closing in on him all
the walls closing in on him
the walls closing in on him he is a liar
there was just so much lying tonight one
astrologer says this means the beginning
of the end for president donald trump
the beginning of the end of the trump
presidency uh he's a bigot
it is racist he's a narcissist he's
always hated women to me it's just
people being gullible
is this the tipping point i know we've
said it over and over
you think this is a tipping point and
over and over this is a
tipping point and over and over the
trump family is a criminal enterprise
obstruction of justice obstruction of
justice obstruction of justice
obstruction of justice obstruction of
justice this is the beginning at the end
the beginning of the end the walls are
closing in the walls closing in an
obstruction of justice to an obstruction
argument this is a very dramatic day and
i think it might be near a tipping point
do you think this is a tipping point
it's all so sad 93
negative media coverage it's just a
saturation from the mainstream media
skit's done on saturday night live where
boy kate mckinnon captured me perfectly
i've had a bad hair life here to help
make sense of this is trump senior
advisor kellyanne conway
thank you jake happy to be here
and then donald trump won and then it
all changed
i remember we used to go at inside
edition
over to trump tower like once a week to
get a sound bite from my father-in-law
about whatever the the topic of the day
was you know because he always had an
opinion that he would share
part of the reason they were killed was
incompetence
under this administration it was just so
interesting how quickly it shifted
and it became hard for me because these
producers
that would write the stories and and you
know cut pieces together for a show that
day
who i knew very well they knew that i
was going to see this stuff
would choose the worst photos of my
father-in-law would take
you know his words out of context and i
would go back to their edit base and be
like guys
i know we've got a better picture than
that of the pres of donald trump like
please i know that you know what he said
let's play the full
clip there but that became really hard
for me because
i wasn't used to that feeling that like
i was being like our family was being
attacked
my father-in-law was being attacked and
i didn't like it
when congressman elijah cummings calls
you a racist
your reaction is what well i think the
word has really
gone down a long way because everybody's
called a racist now uh her own party
called nancy pelosi a racist it's all
about guilt
and it's all about trying to destroy who
you are as a person
from 2016 to now there's this narrative
you know donald trump is
racist the sexist the misogynist of
course he's a racist
i have no examples for you but he's
definitely a racist like just because
everyone knows
i don't have to explain it because
everyone knows it's so ridiculous
right i have a little sister she's 12.
so she's a young
latina woman look at this girl this is
like how
this is what her concept of a president
will be framed at
70 percent of americans say a racist
xenophobe
misogynistic but here's what it all
boils down in the white house
how is he like how's working on the
campaign it was just like
did he like black people yes i'm here
racist sexist misogynist i even pointed
to myself on the tv screen during a cnn
interview once because
you just have to be deaf dumb and blind
to believe that
when you look at donald trump's history
and
you see the number of women that he's
empowered
when you see the number of minorities
that he's empowered
i've seen the attitudes of changing our
communities people are just hopeful
again you can't deny the historic first
step back
criminal justice reform that should have
been done a long time ago
i've met some racist in my life donald
trump is not one of them
how are you so what's your experience in
front of the world
donald trump's closest advisors are
women
but that is something that gets lost
about this man all the time
it has never mattered what someone looks
like their gender anything about their
background to donald trump
his number one question is can you get
the job done for me
and a lot of times women can get the job
done and he knows that
some of the smartest most talented
women that i have seen are people who
work
for or around president trump he loves
killers he tells me all the time
kimberly you're a killer we like to tell
other countries that they need women's
empowerment and gender equality and all
these things but we
look to our own selves and we see we've
never had
obviously a female president every time
in 2016 i got that question about
you know well you're a woman wouldn't
you want a woman to be the president of
the united states
it made me more and more angry that
people legitimately thought that was a
reason
to vote for somebody i mean i can't
think of a worse reason
to vote for a person than what they they
look like
people just want to be treated like
people and respect it as such and
just because i'm a woman doesn't mean
i'm going to vote for a woman
if she wants to destroy everything about
my femininity he chose me for the
positions i have because he believes in
me
and he believed i had the best ability
to be able to fulfill these roles
that's actually respectful to women i
don't want a job
because of my gender i want the job
because i'm the best person for that
position
you know i have gut instinct okay and
we're allowed to have that
and i looked at her and she asked a
question and it was a very
positive question she looks like she's
got a great look and she's
look at that with the tears how nice
she's just a good
she just seemed like a good person to me
the attacks
are difficult um and it isn't
necessarily difficult for me and i think
for the
the ladies and the gentlemen frankly
that we work with but for our families
the thing where it gets hard and is
troublesome and worrisome or
you know the people on social media
those people are
you know a little much um
you know i just don't understand where
they get off saying something like that
to somebody that they don't
know um you know they don't know her
they don't know anything about her
don't know me and you know they just the
personal
like attack on your family you know it's
just like
you know a fan you know in the stadium
or whatever
they mouth off and it's the same thing
you can't say anything back
if you hear it you hear it and move on
for me i mean when i see people attack
me it doesn't faze me it motivates me it
just makes me want to do my job
even better we take our elections
seriously and we believe in election
integrity
justin i was not on the call caitlyn
stop filibustering justin let your
colleagues ask
questions like the book i asked her well
she's here for this purpose
she's doing a great job and she's
fighting a fight that's worth fighting
and uh very very proud yeah very proud
you just tell her to keep
as all you s keep people with the truth
everything else is easy right you tell
the truth the truth wins out
always goes
all right ladies and gentlemen
quick question before we get started who
here is ready for four more years of
donald trump
thank you for everything thank you for
everything
tell him i said thank you for everything
i would often tell him
the stories that we would hear out on
the road and he loved hearing them and
he referenced them sometimes in
interviews he did or in speeches that he
gave and it's not just the
the write in the person's name joe the
plumber stuff these are people who
really told me their stories with tears
in their eyes and poured their hearts
out to me
and they did the same to him he actually
not only would go
and talk to waiters but i feel like he
would seek out people
like the janitorial staff or the
housekeeping staff right
because those people don't generally
directly interact with the management
all the time
and that he knew he would get the real
truth from those people and like
whatever so he would want to get like
the low down on everything
from them and he would go straight to
them and ask how
how's everything doing and you know how
are we doing how do you feel like
everything's going anything we can
improve on
what are you seeing what are you hearing
we're staying in this kitchen and the
wait staff is just
waiting and so trump looks over to the
guy that's about to go out and wait on
tables he goes
so what do you think about all this and
he looks at him
and he's like me so he he literally
talks to the wake staff
the elevator people i mean everywhere we
went he was always talking to the people
who
who themselves thought shouldn't be in
front of anything
he remembers the farmer's face he saw in
iowa and
the farmer who he met backstage and he
remembers the auto worker in michigan
and
he remembers them and he's taken i think
those faces with him to washington
and has not allowed him to sink into the
washington swamp like unfortunately a
lot of republicans do
and he has for somebody who's been
incredibly successful in business
this unique ability to connect with the
ordinary man and woman
he's just a really good guy who loves
this country and i think just seeing how
the reporting of who he
is was so wrong was just really jarring
you have folks who have leaked for
whatever purposes they do
and create this image that it just is no
bearing in truth
and it's quite interesting too because a
lot of people that now
you know kind of come against him
publicly
i saw many of those same people in his
office quite often
people ask me all the time why does he
why does he tweet and it takes
everything so personal and i said well
because it is personal when people
you've known your whole life
who know your heart who know you're not
racist or sexist or misogynist are now
on the airwaves trying to poison people
who don't know you
that is personal and it should be
personal
i researched i went way back and i found
that
30 years prior mr trump at the time was
speaking about all of the issues that
were still relevant
well this is like my second bible and
you can see how it's
all marked and annotated and because
i was going uh all over virginia
and even debating at people who were
cruising for somebody else and they
would say well trump said this or trump
said that well all of the answers were
here
and so all i had to do was turn to this
say no you're wrong
i started virginia women for trump right
here in my living room with 22
very enthusiastic women and it grew from
there
we're out there we're engaging with
everyone that we meet practically he
really cares not just
you know for this country he cares for
others
other countries around especially for a
christian persecuted as
me a daughter of coming from um iraq
baghdad the christians were persecuting
all four decades
back in 2016 when i first attended one
of his rallies
i was very lucky to be at the very close
to the studio
and i had a made-up sign says iraqi
christians voted for trump to win
so as he arrives i followed up and
opened it up
and as through his speech he pointed at
me
and mentioned that we're going to do
better for the country we're going to
restore law and order
and make sure we will protect the
christians there
that's where he immediately gave us a
big hope
and i touched my heart and i felt that
i'm talking to
the person speaks out of his heart doing
this because
you know for the next generation my
children life my
grandchildren and you know their
children some american people they say
oh america never greek
i mean i think that because they never
been outside of the country
so they don't know sometimes when we
travel around the world we come back and
we want to kiss the crowd because we say
oh my god thanks god we are back even
though i didn't born here
but i i always feel i'm american
as the bus traveled through pennsylvania
i stopped by my favorite city
philadelphia
these are the halls where imperfect men
first declared the words that
toppled empires and ancient ideologies
people could rule themselves
self-government
was born here this
is the birthplace of america
it just so happens to be my birthplace
here we are in kensington allegheny down
in philadelphia this
is the house that i was born to stayed
here at 12
5 found me with a very rough situation
when i was five the police came in
separated
my mother and my two sisters and myself
from this house and then we never came
back we never saw our dad again after
that night
we were just kind of living on the
streets and my sisters found a sign on
the
side here that said sunday mornings free
dunkin donuts and orange juice
so we would come here probably for uh
several months in a row never with our
mom
just with my sisters while we were here
a gentleman noticed us
and noticed that we didn't dress well
and that we didn't have
any adult with us and uh took it upon
himself to find out our situation
and one day he he walked along the
streets
to find out what house we were
living in basically an abandoned house
and that's when he was
discovered us and took us to uh this
orphanage he was doing a
a project with
growing up i never dreamed i'd be where
i am today
a beautiful wife kids of my own and now
working in the film industry making
movies but isn't that what we are
fighting for
where a regular joe like me and rise up
out of a place like this
isn't that america
we're back donald trump and robert
kiyosaki define rich
develop rich is a state of mind more
than anything else if you feel you're
rich and if you're happy and
you have a wonderful family you're rich
and this doesn't just have to do with
money
he wants every person in this country
to have the chance of the american dream
and everyone who comes to this country
they work hard that's what he wants he
wants opportunity for everyone
he always loved america because america
he felt
gave him this great opportunity and it
was a place where people could
move from queens to manhattan uh miami
and
kansas can come to dc you can you can
live your dreams
and he realized that my dad was so happy
and proud when he was able to
uh get my mom a house like in the
suburbs and a front lawn
you know and it's things like that that
you know you understand the value of
hard work and be able to provide for
your family
to be able to live your american dream
having that equality of opportunity
not necessarily a result but you have
the chance i became the first
black woman to represent a republican
presidential campaign winning
presidential campaign
in united states history which is huge
i'm a black single mother
coming from poverty
having nothing or no one
no support system no connections and no
pedigree
and he gave me the opportunity of a
lifetime
only a fraction of people will ever get
to work for the president of the united
states
and i became one of them and that is the
donald trump that i know
have we been so conditioned to believe
the worst about people
have we lost the ability to recognize a
good thing
when it's staring us right in the face
there's sort of the public persona of
who donald trump
is who's this you know brash celebrity
businessman that we've all seen in you
know our homes for the last two decades
but there's this side of him that is
this incredibly
calm sort of father-like but deeply
serious man
who cares about the american people i
believe i'm portrayed in a rougher sense
than the actual product and i hope
that's true because i hope the actual
product is
a lot more mellow than the portrayal
he's just raw
he's real he's going to tell you what he
thinks when he thinks it and if he
changes his mind he'll tell you that too
normal political motivators did not
apply to him people looking for status
fame power money he had all of that he
sacrificed so much of it
to do this job we love our
slightly flawed candidate
because we're all slightly no matter
what he says it could be the greatest
thing in the world
but there are so many people out there
and it's sad because
if they got on board and really just for
took a breath and said well let me just
actually
listen for one moment and see what's
really here instead of just having a
prejudgment about somebody
and then just in their mind making it up
you know it's
it would be a lot easier for them and i
bet that they would find that they
really enjoy the president and they
have really benefited from a lot of what
he's done but
there are some you'll never convinced
nobody made any effort
sorry let me i did thank you so much
thank you darling
i'll remember it really means a lot to
me it really does that you take that
and all my son loved this country very
very much
and he gave his life painfully never
cried out in pain or anything like that
asked that his men be taken care of and
and what rank was he in he was a staff
sergeant
not a general not anything like that
just a staff sergeant a platoon sergeant
now again we have a man of the people
most
unlikely man of the people from you know
new york city
um very very successful but yet
in the best way a man of the people who
himself had lived the american dream and
who now just wants to
make sure everyone else has the same
shot
i want to thank you guys all for coming
i especially want to thank our guests
for coming in and that lovely pink truck
that everybody's gonna see
thank you all for joining us i have five
girls okay
talk about women for trump i think i
should i think i should have daughters
for trump bus at this point and alyssa
is here and she's
our number three right she's very
excited to be away from the sisters
and i wanted her to be able to meet the
great people of wisconsin
because it's important for her to know
and understand that
the heart of america is about people who
love this country
america is not about violence america is
not about hatred
america is not about division it is
about freedom
and love and patriotism
and you all embrace that every day of
what you're doing
talking about socialism 14 000
kids who came like me in this country
without parents
and we were provided an opportunity
this is what makes our country great i
was in florida last week with the
president for a round table with vanessa
and cuban leaders
and i met um some workers that were that
were nearby
and they were talking to me about their
concern of seeing
people tearing down the violence and
seeing people tearing down these statues
in the streets
like ali this is how it started in
venezuela this is how it started in cuba
they're like people championing these
policies promising you things that they
can't deliver on
promising this government's gonna fix
everything for you and then taking
control of the people
they're empty promises they weren't
delivered on and they destroyed
countries economies cultures and we
can't let that happen here
this behavior that started with riots
and you know tearing down
vandalizing businesses
statues all the government building this
is the beginning that we've seen back
home
this is the beginning to destroy the
nations it's gonna get worse
and worse if we're not gonna stop it now
you know that's a history right there
and now they trying to destroying it
freedom is just so fragile and
it really can change in a whim
a woman called tara durant took her
young daughter on erin's downtown
as the two tried to drive home a mob
surrounded their vehicle and blocked it
from moving several people
jumped on durant's car and screamed
obscenities at her child
i'd taken my daughter to home depot we
were doing um
a little renovation project we had a
really good time and we were coming back
i realized i've come to a protest and
these protesters were occupying this
intersection
all around it was probably close to 30.
they started to swarm around me
and they started to swear at me they
started to
you know you do affordably offensive
gestures and
that's when i called 9-1-1 they're on my
car all right they're on my car right
now so we would suggest you slowly drive
through the area don't hit anyone with
your vehicle
i cannot get out of here okay patient go
i'll let the officers know okay
are you serious we can't do anything now
the city told us that this is a
sanctioned event get out of my car
you know this is gonna get dangerous i
got a case here yes ma'am it was just
that you call it city hall to let them
know about your frustrations
this is getting scary as i'm getting
more upset so
two protesters jumped onto
they're on my hood they're on my car if
i
proceed slowly they're going to attack
me they're going to attack my car
if i go fast and use dangerous force i'm
going to hurt or kill someone
and i got a little girl in the car
crying are you kidding me she was afraid
that they were gonna get into
our car they were gonna hurt me or kill
me a motorcyclist came
up and he all of a sudden the people's
kind of
parted and he's gesturing at me
horrifically just saying
get the f out of here get the f out of
here and i stared at him i thought did
he just save me or
what happened you can't be threatened
and assaulted or battered
and say call city hall that's not
civilized society that's not
our country
my father was very successful i mean he
came from nothing and built these
businesses
and owned his house and he was going
somewhere
all of a sudden when castro came into
power you can see disintegration
destruction division happen in a country
so fast
it was a story of starting their lives
over again in this great country that
embraced them that really took them in
and my father always says you know he
left cuba with just an apple in his
and leaving everything just think about
this you leave
everything behind no matter how many
times i hear that story i always get
emotional like when my mom told that
cpac like she has told me the story so
many times and when i was a kid like i
didn't really know what it meant like i
was kind of like oh well
it's like freedom but now i realize like
how important that is to us
and when she told it at cpac actually um
recently um i started crying and
everyone looked over at me and i was
just like
because i just it's so terrible
what happened to him and i know every
time he tries to tell us like he gets
emotional he can't even tell the story
it's that bad and that's how precious
our freedom is
it's it's so important that if we lose
it
we lose so much more than just our
freedom
it's a choice between two visions of
america
and two different visions on how your
life
would either be more in the hands of the
government or more in the hands of you
the whole concept of self-governance
right where
you usually have a monarchy or a
dictator the whole idea of america 250
years ago was that
that doesn't work as well as a
government structure where we
elect our own representatives and they
represent the people
not the institutions and i think that
got lost
along the way and i think that this
president represents the people
not the establishment not the
institutions not the lobby
not a political party he represents the
people
no one could have predicted the chaos
that would ensue
with the trump candidacy i mean the
level of vitriol
and hate and now even violence i knew
that it would get pretty bad because
when you take on the establishment
regardless of the party there's there's
going to be some problems people don't
just give up power
or control of a 20 trillion dollar piggy
bank it's just not easy
it's a very slender minority of hateful
marxists
who are trying to rip everything down
and they really intimidate people
into silence if you're in the creative
community and you want to be on broadway
or in hollywood and
you're a christian or you love america
or you want to put your flag out i mean
these basic things
um they will persecute you they will
harm you
and the thing about good and decent
people is they tend to be quiet
because they tend to be tolerant and
what they need to understand is it's
good to be tolerant that's a virtue
but it's not a virtue when it turns into
the
destruction of what is good well i want
to thank everybody i will not forget
what i heard today
it uh it's very moving it's a very tough
situation and
we've made a lot of progress as you
probably have seen and you know
and i have a feeling you won't be
disappointed i've watched
him in just about every situation
circumstance from
fundraisers to dinners to on the golf
course to with family to casual time
you begin to know the character of a
person you begin to know the patterns of
a person
he's got an inner strength and an inner
core and he's got a love for this
country
and a love for people i had a guy say to
me today it was great he was like yeah
god what trump's doing is amazing that
guy he is made of steel his backbone is
amazing
i just wish he could be a little more
polite and i was like
when they're ripping apart your country
and trying to turn it into a communist
nightmare you're probably gonna be in a
little bit of a bad mood
probably gonna fight hard and maybe a
little bit dirty
you know uh when they're ripping down
everything that this country stands for
i'm glad we have a president that's
kicking dirt back in their face
i sincerely believe that when history
looks back on this president
the story will be told that no one
no president has done more for more
people
and for our country than this one has
right now at this time
wow we're not going to get anything out
here
don't get me wrong obviously i chose to
participate and i
love and appreciate what you guys are
doing
but are we going to convince anyone
differently it's like we're in such a
strange
time right now yeah that
are people open to hearing the real
story
and i hope they are you know and but i
say all the time i'm like if people knew
him the way
i feel like i know him we wouldn't even
have to be working so hard to tell this
story
when the president finally arrived he
mentioned he didn't have a lot of time
you could tell something was definitely
on his mind
despite this i watched him pull himself
into the moment
he gave us his attention as if we were
the only people in the room
go to the night of the election it's
like 2 30 or so
in the morning the moment came when you
went from trying to win an election
and then you won and realized you became
the president of the united states
if you just share that moment i know
laura was there for that moment also
so the night of the election was
certainly we have to say one of the most
exciting times for everybody
because nobody's ever seen worldwide i
have friends that said they've never
seen anything like it i know that some
of the big sports networks said it was
the most exciting
evening they've ever seen so you've had
super bowls and you've had
some of the biggest events ever and this
was probably the most exciting
and that was a special night you have
the family around and all of a sudden
they announced it was two o'clock
in the morning or so although i think we
knew the result long before that they
didn't want to call it they just refused
to call pennsylvania they should have
called pennsylvania long before
but uh we knew that it was uh pretty
much over
at about ten o'clock but all of a sudden
it's two o'clock
and we're realizing what happened and
being with the family was just something
very special because it's such an
important
thing and and i'm not even saying
important for us
because i don't think any of us view it
that way it's important for our country
the country needs help
it's needed help for a long time and
when you see what's going on now i think
maybe even more so in a sense it was
it was fomenting and uh it was it was
very bad the
ideology the the others ideology
but now it's all come out they're saying
this is really what we want
and it's really a sick ideology it's
very dangerous and
and very bad you look at venezuela you
look at cuba you look at so many other
places where they have something very
similar and what's happened is we've
made such great strides
but we have to really get this
additional four years
or the first four years won't mean quite
as much
and maybe won't mean much at all frankly
so we have to get this this next four
years it's got a seed just like a tree
you can't just put it there and let it
grow it has to seed
and i think it will have tremendous
spirit tremendous spirit
we've made a lot of progress other than
the plague coming
in from china we had the greatest
numbers in the history of our country
and now we're building them back again
and i think next year we're going to be
stronger than ever before that's what's
happening those are the numbers those
are very good at numbers those are the
numbers that are coming in
we're going to have a year next year
that's even better than last year and
last year was the greatest year this
country's ever had economically
family is so important to yourself it's
been really
a privilege for us to spend time with
your family
and it seems like with all the other
chaos in there in the country in the
world right now
why is family so important to you so
having family and having people that you
can really
love and trust and all of the things
that go along with the word family
is very important it grounds you
it makes you realize a lot of things
that you wouldn't
realize otherwise when you see
children growing up without a good
family structure you see the result is
is percentage-wise just a tiny
percentage of
what it would be if you had the family
structure so having family around
is number one it makes a nice life it
makes a much more comfortable life in so
many ways but
it's really very important oftentimes
the media presents
uh you as somebody that doesn't support
women yet that couldn't be
further from the truth even from the
days when you
built trump tower you've always put
people in places not based on what they
look like
but based on their performance and based
on what they bring to the table
and i think it's incredible that you
have within your campaign
over 50 women that you have so many
strong women around you in the
administration
so i've always felt a great
affection and respect for women and
it's always been there from day one i
don't know i guess you can develop that
maybe you can't
but with me it was always there and
whether it was in business or politics
or
anything else women have played a very
very big role
uh the level of genius is unbelievable
frankly
and it's been an honor to have so many
uh winners because they're real winners
winners with me i couldn't have won
without women but they helped me get
there
they helped me get there and they're
really just i love working with women
i love working with women i really
appreciate your time sir
it means a lot to us so i have to get a
because of change i knew it okay
what i'm personally fighting for is a
future
where my kids get to grow up in the same
america that i did
i think back to my childhood and it's
just the greatest memories in the world
i remember
being so proud to be an american i
remember standing up a little taller and
prouder with my hand over my heart when
i said the pledge of allegiance because
i loved
this country and i knew how fortunate i
was to grow up in this country when i
think about
my children growing up i want to know
that they feel that way too that they
get to live
in this great country where there are
boundless opportunities where there
are freedoms unlike any other country in
the world
nowhere in the entire world in the
history of the world
has there ever been a country like
america where anyone can succeed
one of the most essential fundamental
elements of our society the freedom
to live the life that you want to live
you might live a very different life
than i live you might think differently
than i do
but america is big enough to take it
this is the country that i would leave
behind
for my my children and my grandchildren
i only wish that america could know and
see
and understand and truly adore
this president the way i and so many
others on his staff do
people are never going to see his heart
because if they did
i think the media is just not going to
let that happen in this country which is
really unfortunate
but at the heart of it he's such a good
man
and he really cares about this country
people really thought about that
about how he gave up what anybody would
consider an
incredibly successful life and career to
be treated the way he is treated every
day
they might actually get a little glimpse
into what the heart of donald trump
actually looks like
i think as a country we're fighting to
maintain
the america we've always known because
in many respects
there are people out there that want to
fundamentally change this country they
want to transform it they want
us to have a country that would put
socialism forward and
have more government involved in your
life controlling most things that you do
and that's a really scary prospect
under those circumstances we couldn't
thrive in america like we always have
people wouldn't have their chance at the
american dream so
we will be fighting every single step of
the way
because really nothing is more important
good evening america
i'm lara trump daughter of bob and linda
unesco
sister to kyle mother to luke and
carolina
and the daughter-in-law of our 45th
president
so
you